"If you can really change the fetus by relying on a single herb, why will it be ...... more than a thousand years later?"

"What's in more than a year?"

"It's nothing, it's just emotional." Xing Ruyi looked down at the baby boy in her arms: "I mean, if this flower exchange really has such a magical effect, then why should the white granny hide it." Let the people of the world want to get a man and get a man, and want to get a woman to get a woman, wouldn't everyone be happy? But whatever needs to be hidden, there must be something unsightly. ”

"Madame is not wrong to say so."

"What is it that ordinary people can't afford?"

"Naturally, it's the unsightly thing that Madame just said." Ah Ziniang's face was embarrassed: "Madame, can you take a step to speak?" ”

Xing Ruyi nodded, turned around, and handed the baby boy in his arms to the fox. Taking advantage of the turn, she opened her mouth and bit her finger and fed a drop of blood to the baby.

"Ruyi." The fox looked at her and called softly.

Xing Ruyi looked at the fox and smiled, and said, "It's okay. Right now, that's probably the best way to go. ”

The fox sighed lightly and said nothing more.

Turning around, I saw Ah Ziniang looking this way. Xing Ruyi said: "The child is fine, he will grow up in peace." ”

"It's okay." Ah Ziniang breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm always worried that this child will be a little different from the child next to me." ”

"Sit down and say, you've just given birth, so it's not appropriate to stand like this. Go back, I'll prescribe you a few more pairs of conditioning medicine, and it's better to use medicine than now. ”

"Thank you, ma'am." Ah Ziniang was slightly blessed and sat down on the edge of the bed. "That day, my mother-in-law threatened the child in my womb, forcing Granny Bai to open the door. What did my mother-in-law say? But whatever she believes in, she always doesn't stop until she reaches her goal. Seeing that my mother-in-law was so stubborn, Granny Bai had to invite us into the door. ”

Ah Ziniang paused slightly and continued: "Granny Bai told us that it is not that she is hard-hearted, but that there is another hidden secret behind this exchange of flowers and plants. If we insist on changing the tire, we will have to bear the consequences of the replacement. At that time, I had no way out, and I was willing to bear whatever the consequences. ”

Ah Ziniang stirred her hands vigorously: "Granny Bai saw that I had made up her mind, so she left me and my mother-in-law behind. The next day, she went up the mountain and came back in search of the herbs, but there was still one thing that had been boiled with the herbs. ”

"What?"

"A fetus, but a dead fetus."

"Fetus?"

"Hmm!" Ah Ziniang bit her lip hard: "One after another stillbirths, I don't know where those stillbirths and Granny Bai got them." All I know is that they are hanging in a room like dried bacon. That room was closed in the past, and even Granny Bai herself rarely went in. Also, that kind of scene, don't say that you watched it with your own eyes, just hearing people talk about it, I feel terrifying.

Granny Bai said that this is a kind of witchcraft from southern Xinjiang, but anyone who uses it is not allowed to live long. Everyone who lives in this courtyard is called the White Mother, and every White Mother-in-law needs to find the next replacement for herself before she dies. The replacement must be a woman, and a girl not more than twelve years of age.

When I said this, Granny Bai asked me, how old does she look? I pondered for a long time and told her that she should be about the same age as my mother-in-law. But Granny Bai shook her head, saying that she was only a few years older than me, and if it was based on age, I should call her sister, not mother-in-law. Her white hair and the furrows and ravines on her face were all left by helping people exchange flowers and plants.

At worst, it's a curse. To put it mildly, it is retribution. Granny Bai also said that I was the last one she had ever replaced. When I finished changing the baby, I had to step down from my post and pass on the secret of the change of flowers and plants to another girl in the village. ”

"If my guess is correct, those you are taking are all male fetuses, right?"

Ah Ziniang nodded.

"Feed a stillborn baby, do you know what will happen to you?"

"Granny Bai said, she said, the day the child is born is the time of my death. Even if I survive it, it will only be a few more years. ”

"It's not just about staying up, is it?"

"Yes!" Ah Ziniang said and rolled up her sleeves, only to see that the white arm was covered with cyan centipede-like marks: "I will be entangled by these things to death, and I will not die well." ”

"Now that you know, why do you choose to take that change of flowers?"

"I just said it, I have no choice." Ah Zi Niang glanced out the window: "My Ah Zi, someone must take care of it." ”

"Alas!" Xing Ruyi sighed lightly.

At this time, the sound of the bamboo curtain being lifted came from my ears. Ah Zi walked in with a bowl: "Mother, the water is boiled." ”

"Is it hot?"

Ah Ziniang looked at her daughter's red face from the fire, and was about to get up, but was stopped by Xing Ruyi.

"I'll feed it."

Ah Zi handed the bowl to Xing Ruyi, and then smiled sweetly at his mother-in-law: "It's not hot, it's warm, it's just right for my brother to drink." ”

Ah Ziniang's eyes turned red and turned her back. Xing Ruyi put the water aside, picked up Ah Zi's hand and looked at it, only to see that the palm of his hand was red, and even his fingers were red.

"Silly girl, won't you wait for the water to cool down before serving?"

"Grandma has been gone for a long time and hasn't come back, my brother hasn't eaten since he was born, and he must be hungry at this time."

"Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt." Ah Zi put his hands behind his back: "Ah Zi's hands are thick and his skin is thick. ”

"The children of the poor are in charge of the family early, and Ah Zi will definitely be a capable girl in the future."

"Mrs. Xie!" Ah Zi nodded, turned around and ran to the fox, stood on tiptoe, and looked at the baby boy who was being held by the fox: "When I was in the kitchen, I didn't hear my brother crying, was he asleep?" ”

The knock on the door, through the courtyard, fell into Xing Ruyi's ears. She lifted the curtain and watched as Daddy Zi walked briskly to the back of the door, followed by the sound of the deadbolt being pulled.

I thought that the husband had sent the Tu lady back, but I didn't expect that it was not the crazy Tu Da Niang who followed Ah Zi's father into the door, but a monster. The monster was naked, wearing a pair of wide black cotton pants and carrying a burden in his hand. The face, hidden in the shadows, saw only two fangs protruding from the lips.

When the monster stepped into the courtyard, a cloudy wind rose all around, and the people who blew it were only shivering. Ah Ziniang saw the wind blowing into the house, so she quickly got up and hurriedly wanted to put down the half-open window. Xing Ruyi wanted to stop it, but it was too late. When Ah Ziniang saw that thing, she only let out a scream in shock, and then her face turned pale, and she staggered and fell.

"Oops!"

Xing Ruyi couldn't care about the monster that was following Ah Zi's father at this time, she hurriedly ran to Ah Ziniang's side and probed her pulse with her hand.

"How?"

Xing Ruyi shook his head and hugged Ah Zi, who was standing aside and was still half stunned, into his arms.

"Ah Zi, take care of your brother, don't come out no matter what sound you hear. Also, don't look into the courtyard, just guard your brother and your mother in bed. ”

Ah Zi nodded blankly, glanced at her mother who was still lying on the ground, and obediently took off her shoes and climbed onto the bed. The fox glanced at Ah Zi, gently put the baby boy in his arms beside her, and then hugged Ah Ziniang, who was paralyzed on the ground, to the bed.

Xing Ruyi thought about it and put down the curtains hanging on both sides.

"Are you afraid?"

The fox held Xing Ruyi's hand.

"I'm afraid of it, so it's a ghost." Xing Ruyi first glanced at the white fox arrogantly, and then asked in a low voice, "What is that?" ”

"That's not a thing!"

", of course I know it's not a thing." Xing Ruyi listened sideways.

It looked quite large, but it didn't make a sound when it walked. It has no sound, but Ah Zi Daddy does. When he looked at it, Xing Ruyi knew that Ah Zi's father had fallen for that monster's move, and his posture when he walked unhurriedly became extremely stiff, and even the sound of footsteps became the heavy sound of "let's da, da, da".

By this time, the voice had reached the front of the room. Needless to say, the monster followed to the front of the house.

"Flowers and plants! Flowers! ”

Simple syllables came out of Ah Zipa's mouth. As soon as Xing Ruyi wanted to go over and take a look, he shivered coldly, and then involuntarily rubbed his arms. Seeing this, the fox quickly wrapped her in his arms and whispered, "Be careful, that thing outside the door is something you haven't seen before." ”

"So, you've seen it?" Xing Ruyi said as he rubbed his hands and sighed: "This monster, it shouldn't be ice-based, right?" ”

"Ice?"

"It's cold."

"That's yin, extremely heavy yin." The fox frowned: "I've only heard of this thing, but I've never seen it." ”

"What the hell is it?" Xing Ruyi couldn't help but stomp his feet: "I can't bear such a heavy yin qi, Ah Zi ......" Thinking of Ah Zi, Xing Ruyi broke free from the fox's arms. After she pulled the curtain on the bed, she found that Ah Zi, along with her mother and the baby, had been frozen into ice sculptures.

"Damn!" Xing Ruyi turned around and was about to rush out, but was stopped by the fox and hugged him.

"This is the yin and resentment of those stillborn people, not ordinary demons. If you rush out so recklessly, you'll only hurt yourself. After the fox finished speaking, he added: "If it was in the past, I could have accompanied you to give it a try." But Ruyi, you're about to be a mother. ”

yes, she's about to become a mother.

Xing Ruyi stopped and looked down at his lower abdomen.

"But we can't just leave it alone, can we? If I don't care, my blood just now was not in vain. Also, the cultivation you wasted when you saved Ah Ziniang was not in vain. This thing, no matter how evil it is, has weaknesses, right? ”

"The bell must be tied to the bell, I think we need to find the beggar."