"Mom!" Cheng Jiao shouted hard, for fear of being overshadowed by the sound of the rain hitting the leaves.

But her mother immediately turned around, she wore an emerald green hat on her head, and she was wearing a green gray robe, revealing only the hem of the red skirt.

"You stinky boy, why did you come here to find me alone!" Mom said with a frown pretending to be angry.

Cheng Jiao had already rushed to her out of breath. The mother saw that her daughter was drenched all over, and the thick black braid on her back soaked up the rainwater, and she twisted it until there was a small half basin.

"Lord Hot Springs slept late last night and got up early this morning, I'm worried that she will pray for rain, so I'm here to help!" Cheng Jiao said mischievously.

"If you have the ability, you will always call me Lord Hot Spring, don't call Mom. This makes it easier for me to arouse you. ”

"Ah, let's get on the horse and go home, okay, Lord Hot Spring? What if I don't come to you! The main entrance and the Avenue of Divine Blessing were so crowded that I had to squeeze out half my life when I walked home from there. Besides, who let you ride my Chiji's? ”

"Don't you see my clothes? We only have this red horse in our family that can wear this red dress. If you want to blame it, you can't afford to ring the bell in the morning! I can't even get up to see the excitement, I've seen it for two days, what can you do when you get to Jinwuyuan! ”

"Don't bother, Mother!" Cheng Jiao turned over and got on his horse, "I wake up more early than you!" Come on! ”

The golden-leafed witch hurriedly untied the apron of her coat and let Cheng Jiao wrap it around her chest. She had just gotten on the horse, but before she could sit down, Cheng Jiao urged Chi Ji to run.

"This kid is really quick-tempered, it's not like me at all." She thought to herself, a loving smile on her face.

After leaving the temple gate, the two of them walked along the tall purple hall wall first to the south and then to the east, and circled back to the Divine Blessing Avenue. As Cheng Jiao expected, the once wide avenue was crowded by people who pilgrimaged to Thanksgiving in the rain.

Fortunately, it was Chi Ji who was carrying this horse today, and he was able to toss and turn in the crowd. It seems that Dad is right about its origin. If it weren't for the fact that they had stepped out of the battlefield where hundreds of thousands of people were fighting, ordinary horses would have been overwhelmed with fright in the face of such a chaotic scene.

Cheng Jiao peeked at the Bodhi tree beside the avenue where she had hidden her shoes, and there was a disabled person dressed as Hanako sitting under the tree, and he curled up one good leg and stretched out the other severed limb below the knee into the rain, muttering something to himself. I guess I hope this miraculous rain can regenerate his severed limbs.

Cheng Jiao didn't dare to tell his mother to stop the horse and let himself go to the grass under the tree to get his shoes. She knew that making such a request at this time would only invite scolding.

"Do you want me to be stopped by this irrational crowd, to report the wishes of the thousands of people here to the gods, and then to help them relieve their suffering? Don't you know how hard your mother and I have to work in this hot spring hall? "Mom will say that, and then tomorrow she will say in front of Dad how ignorant she is.

She comforted herself and said not to disturb the sweet dreams of the suffering man, and to ride a horse to get his shoes another day. From there, head south to your own house at the entrance to Shenyou Avenue.

The grandfather of the porter came out to open the door, and when he saw the mother and daughter, he repeatedly praised the gods. Mom and Cheng Jiaokou recited "God blessed" to return the salute to him. The two took off their heavy and damp coats and hats on their heads in the gatehouse, took the oil umbrella handed by their grandfather, and walked towards the house.

Cheng Jiao first went with his mother to check the bluestone well behind the gatehouse.

Before leaving home this morning, when he was fetching water and making tea with his grandfather, Cheng Jiao leaned over to look at the well, which was only two feet of shallow spring water at the bottom. But looking at it now, the water level in the well has risen to more than half of this time in previous years, and there is an obvious spring gushing in the center of the well water that should be calm, and Cheng Jiao can't help but be impressed by his mother's unfathomable spiritual power again.

Before checking the water level of the well herself, the golden-leaved shrine maiden was not entirely sure whether the prayer would be successful, and she feared that it would only be a passing rain. At this point, she was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. Even groundwater, which had seemed to have been dry for months, began to gush out, and it seemed that the drought was truly saved.

Cheng Jiao was just about to praise his mother, but he turned his head and saw Jin Ye looking at the well with a smug expression, and immediately held back his words.

Sure enough, her mother reached out and put her arms around Cheng Jiao's shoulders and said, "What? Worship me, right? Look at it, if the rain prayer is successful this time, the people of the five islands will confirm that the gods are still favored by the gods, and of course, the most favored among them is the hot spring hall myself! Those historians will write me as the youngest but most powerful town hall witch in the history of the Divine Blessing Continent. How? What's that expression on your face? You little thing who doesn't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings! I don't know how many people have traveled thousands of miles to see me, but you dare to look at your great mother with such eyes? You give me ......"

Cheng Jiao had already come out from under his mother's arm, "Mom, I'm too uncomfortable in wet clothes, I need to change them quickly." I'm still in a hurry to clean my father's study, and don't forget that tomorrow is an important day! ”

"Look at your shoes! Are the new embroidered shoes made for you to make you so ruined in the rain! Ay? Where's your new embroidered shoes?! ”

The daughter turned around and stuck out her tongue and continued to run, only slightly on tiptoe.

"Cheng Jiao, you have to dry your hair quickly, be careful of headaches!"

Watching her daughter disappear around the corner of the verandah, the golden-leafed witch shook her head helplessly. She and her husband doted on this only daughter, and the daughter had always shown undisguised reverence for her father, but she always didn't care much about herself, the hot spring hall that was admired by thousands of people. also blame herself, she can't put on a high, sacrosanct appearance in front of her. That's because she prefers to be close to her daughter at all times, to be her best friend, to spend this short time in the world with her, and to leave her the warmest and happiest memories.

She felt that time had passed so fast!

The little girl who hugged her thighs and entangled her every day has unconsciously become a slim girl. When I wrapped my arms around her shoulders just now, I had to stand on tiptoe!

When I think back to the incredible experience of my pregnancy and childbirth seventeen years ago, it is as vivid as if it had just happened.

The daughter still had blood on her naked body, waving her little hands and being stuffed into the arms of the midwife. The husband beside her was already excited and tearful, but she looked at the crumpled little man in her arms with a tangled and complicated feeling.

The little baby had both eyes open, and looked back at her mother without crying or making a fuss. There is no emptiness or panic in the eyes of a baby, but there is a serene eternity that seems to have seen through everything. The delicate and sweet soft hair, and the wrinkled hands that open and close are no different from other newborn babies. But the child looked at her, or into the endless void, and breathed calmly, once and again.

Jin Ye was immediately convinced that it was not the gaze that a newborn would have, and he was also convinced that what happened during the birth process was definitely not an illusion caused by his own pain.