By the time I woke up, it was already dark.

There was no one in the room, so I struggled to get up, and when I pushed the door out, I happened to see my father sitting in the courtyard, boiling medicinal soup on the fire.

He is the only doctor in the village, proficient in many Chinese medicine prescriptions, not a serious illness, and can generally be treated.

That's why I had to bring Yan Xiaoying back.

"Stinky boy woke up? How does it feel? ”

My father was lighting the fire, and when he heard the door open, he glanced at me and said, "You are very badly injured, and you almost frightened your mother when you were unconscious." ”

My father is the village doctor, and he knows about my injuries, and when I see him say this, I feel relieved.

"I'm sorry to worry you. How was Yan Xiaoying's injury? Where is she? I asked.

"Fortunately, it is not life-threatening, mainly because the girl is in good physical condition and has recovered. Alas, I don't know what Old Lady Yan thinks, a good girl's family, she doesn't care about discipline even if she shaves her hair. ”

I smiled and said, "Dad, you have to say this, but you are outdated, and now in the outside world, there is no strange makeup." ”

Dad shook his head and muttered, "I really don't understand the world of young people now." ”

"You're going to see her, and by the way, take this medicinal soup in and give her a drink. She's in your mother's room, alas, she's so old that she has to be driven to the pharmacy to sleep......" Dad chattered into the pharmacy.

I forced a smile and poured the medicinal soup into my mother's room.

In the room, my mother was helping Yan Xiaoying put on a hot hand towel by the bedside, and when she saw me coming in with medicinal soup, her face suddenly became gloomy.

If Yan Xiaoying hadn't been lying on the bed, I would have been reprimanded by her again.

I saw that Yan Xiaoying's face had improved a lot, and she secretly went out of the room while her mother was feeding her medicine, although there were many things to ask, but looking at her mother's face, it was better to retreat for the time being.

When I got back to my room, I suddenly remembered something, and quickly searched around my room.

"It's gone!"

I was like a deflated balloon, unable to sit on the bed.

Thinking of my mother's eyes and face just now, the whole person was like falling into an ice cellar.

Going down the mountain to look for Yan Xiaoying, I took Lin Jingmei's tablet with me. Because I was afraid of danger, I thought that if the situation was really bad, why should I call Jingmei out to save people.

I don't know if this method works.

However, I saw that Yan Xiaoying was injured, and for a while I forgot to hide Jingmei's tablet, and when I was unconscious, most of the tablets were taken by my mother.

With my mother's ingenuity, it's hard to make up lies to deceive her.

It is said that knowing the son is better than the father, compared to the fact that the mother is the one who knows her child best.

I don't want my family to know about me and the mountain god Niangniang, first, I am afraid that they will not accept it, and second, I am afraid that things will be embarrassing.

After all, this kind of thing is difficult to explain clearly.

But now, I'm 90% sure that Jingmei's tablet must have been taken away by my mother.

I was in my room for about half an hour before there was a knock on the door.

"Xiao Yan, have you slept? Mom has something to tell you. ”

My mother spoke very softly, even with a little tenderness, but the more she spoke to me in this tone, the more uneasy I became.

The door opened, and my mother walked in, holding something in her hand, not Jingmei's tablet, but a bowl of noodles.

"Xiao Yan, today is your birthday, I didn't expect such a big thing to happen in the reservoir, I've heard about it, you did it right this time, I won't blame you, come!" Let's eat this bowl of noodles. ”

Unexpectedly, my mother kept remembering my birthday, looking at her kind face, my heart was sour, I took the noodles and ate them in a big gulp.

Although it was an ordinary bowl of noodles, I ate it happily.

A bowl of noodles disappeared after three or two clicks.

"Come to the hall when you're full, I have other things to tell you." Mom took the empty bowl and walked out without waiting for me to respond.

What should come will always come, I have no choice but to confess to my parents.

Otherwise, I will always feel guilty in my heart. Besides, this is not fair to Jingmei, I want to marry her, and I want to marry her justifiably.

When I came to the hall, my mother was already sitting there, and my father was there.

I glanced around, and immediately saw that there was an extra tablet on the table in the main hall, and the tablet read: "Lin Jingmei is willing to promise you as his wife." "A line of words.

That night, Jingmei and I had a heart-to-heart conversation on the embankment, and when I came back, I found that the words on the tablet had changed.

"Who is this Lin Jingmei? What do you have to do with her? Tell us about it. "My mother looked at me with no joy or anger on her face.

I took a deep breath and told me all about what had happened when I came back.

After that, I felt a lot more relaxed.

Jingmei gave up the Nine Turns Golden Pill Fragment and the position of the Mountain God for me, and I can't afford to lose her. And she has suppressed the evil dragon in Heavenly Mountain for hundreds of years, I don't know how much loneliness she has suffered, and the best way for me to repay her kindness is to marry her into the door.

I'm sure over the years, she has also looked forward to a good home.

I married her home, and from then on, my family is her family, and my parents are her parents, which is the destination, otherwise we will not be recognized by our family, and it will be just a bad fate.

My mother and father looked at me in shock and didn't speak for a long time.

"Dad, Mom, I can't tell you a lot of things, I can only tell you, I can't help but marry this woman, and I really like her, and I will never marry a second woman in this life."

It took a long time for the two elders to recover from the shock.

"Bad fate, all this is fate. In the past twenty years, we thought that you had lived a normal life, but we didn't expect you to still embark on such a path. Dad shook his head.

Mom didn't speak, but she wiped away tears.

As soon as I heard that my father seemed to have something to say, I hurriedly asked, "What normal people's life?" Am I not a normal person? Are you hiding something from me? ”

Dad seemed to know that he had lost his words, shook his head and left, without answering me.

It's my mother, she stroked Jingmei's tablet at the moment, and asked me in a low voice: "This girl, is she really the mother of the mountain god?" ”

I nodded and shook my head, and simply told her about Jingmei's battle with the Twin Dragons.

After hearing this, my mother didn't show a shocked look this time, nodded and said, "She is a good girl, since you already have a marriage contract, your father and I will not stop it." ”

When I heard her say this, I was stunned at first, and then I said happily: "Great, if you agree, I will go up the mountain and bring her back to show you two elders." ”

My mother stopped me and said, "Don't be busy beforehand, your dad is not in good health, and he won't be able to stand this stimulation for a while, I'll talk to him later, your injuries are not healed, go back to your room and rest early." ”

I thought to myself, although my mother usually nagged a little, she was still reliable at the critical moment.

Thinking of what my father said before leaving, I was always puzzled and asked my mother what was going on.

But my mother said that my father was hit and talked nonsense, so I asked me to ignore him.

How could I believe that my father, as a doctor, generally doesn't lie, and he can't lie to me, so he doesn't leave with a dead face, and at the same time doesn't let my mother go.

In the end, my mother really couldn't stand me, so she sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, let me tell you, you have grown so big, and it is impossible to hide this matter from you for the rest of your life." Besides, now you're going to marry the mountain god Niangniang, but don't blame your dad after I say it. ”

I looked at my mother and waited for the next step.

Next, my mother began to tell me about my strange but unbelievable birth experience.

I was born twenty-five years ago today, also at night.

When my mother gave birth to me, I had a difficult birth, and the midwife asked my father whether to keep me old or young, and my father was in pain and hesitant at the time, but in the end he saved my mother's life.

When I came out, I was out of breath, my whole body was black, and my parents looked at me with grief.

At that time, the thinking of the villagers was still relatively superstitious, and babies who died at birth or under the age of one could not be buried, cremated or thrown into the river.

Because babies are the most resentful, it is even more difficult to exceed them if they become resentful babies. In the old society before that, medicine was underdeveloped, and because of the lack of adequate meals, babies often died before they were a month old.

The babies were wrapped in carriers and taken up the mountain to find a secret place to hang them on tree branches. Hanging the baby's corpse in this way can make the baby feel as if he is being carried by his mother, and over time, he will take the tree as his mother, and his resentment will be relieved.

We called those trees baby trees, but they are no longer visible.

At that time, my mother had just given birth and had no strength, so my father wrapped me in a harness and carried me up the mountain. At that time, my grandfather happened to rush down from the mountain when he heard the news, and when he saw my father wrapping me up the mountain, he didn't say anything, and slapped my father in the face.

Then he snatched me up and said he could revive me.

My dad didn't believe it, how could a child who had been dead for a long time be saved? He was afraid that my grandfather would be stimulated, so he stepped forward to persuade him that he was more sad than anyone else without a child.

But my grandfather didn't listen, glared at him fiercely, and then ran up the hill with me in his arms.

At that time, my grandfather was in his fifties, and he was walking like a fly, and my father couldn't keep up.

My grandfather disappeared with me all night, and the next day he actually sent me home and I came back to life......

Later, my mother asked my grandfather what was going on, and my grandfather said that he had lent me a life to come back, and as for whose life he borrowed, he did not say.

After listening to my mother's story of this incident, I fell into deep contemplation.

Growing up, I felt that the old man treated me differently, because he never allowed my brother to go up the mountain to find him, but he took me to live on it for quite a long time.

Coupled with the old man's various anomalies after coming back this time, are these all related to my strange birth experience?

Why did the mountain god agree to marry me so easily? Is it also because of the life that my grandfather borrowed from me, in fact, she didn't like me, but the person I borrowed my life.

I stood dumbfounded, my mind in a state of confusion, and I couldn't help but scratch my hair a few times.

Seeing me like this, my mother wiped her tears and said: "Xiaoyan, don't blame your father, he loves you very much, if I had known that he had made such a choice, I would definitely stop him......"

As soon as she shed tears, my eyes turned red, and I choked up: "I don't blame you, I don't blame anyone, no matter whose life the old man borrows, I will always be your child." ”