Chapter 55: The Exchange of Lives
Due to the loss of vision, Chu Lin stumbled back home, groped into his room, and then the dark moonlight stretched out his little hand and waved it a few times in front of him, and sighed helplessly: "Hey, but as long as my mother can get better, it is worth it for me to do this."
The next morning, when Chu Lin was sleeping, a pair of gentle and delicate palms caressed his tender cheeks.
"Lin'er, get up and eat. Feeling his mother's soft call, Chu Lin slowly opened his eyes.
It was still dark in front of him, but strangely enough, his mother carefully lifted herself up, as if she had known that he was blind.
Chu Lin was very surprised in his heart, and at the same time, he asked softly, "Mother, your illness, is it okay?"
Chu Lin's mother seemed surprised and responded, "What disease can I have? My only heart disease is to be able to heal your eyes."
Although Chu Lin was young, he also heard the reason, it should be Feng Zu who fulfilled his wish and erased his mother's memory at the same time, so that he would live without any knots.
"Thank you, Feng Zu" Chu Lin thought silently in his heart, the people of the entire village were devout, and Chu Lin was naturally no exception.
Ordinary life is long and short, three years are fleeting, in these three years, Chu Lin felt unprecedented maternal love, although his eyes can't see it, but his heart is extremely clear. Happiness and joy occupied him throughout his childhood.
The autumn night was slightly cool, the breeze creaked through the treetops, and the deaf Chu Lin followed the country road to the temple in the center of the village again, and his ears were more sensitive because he was used to the darkness.
He knelt down gently, folded his hands on the ground, and recited the prayer reverently: "Ancestor Feng, your people Chu Lin prayed sincerely, willing to exchange his mother's life at all costs, even if it is to live an extra minute and a second."
"My poor boy, the three-year period has expired, and your wishes have not changed? At the same time as the voice came, Chu Lin knew that the gods were once again attached to him.
Chu Lin straightened his "kneeling posture" and said jerkyly: "Yes, Feng Zu, I am willing to sacrifice my mother's thoughtfulness."
"The second exchange, I want your flesh and blood in exchange for your mother to be free from illness for 5 years, can you agree?" Feng Zu asked unhurriedly.
Chu Lin thought for a while, nodded resolutely and said, "I agree, at all costs."
"Okay, my child, the contract is made, you, you can go".
Chu Lin returned home again along the country road alone, wondering all the way, why didn't he immediately lose his flesh and blood this time?
I couldn't figure it out, Chu Lin didn't bother to think about it, it was already the second half of the night, so it was better to take a break for seconds, as for how to "repay the debt", let's talk about it tomorrow.
As soon as I lay on the bed, I only felt a chill on my back, and I touched it, and it was a sharp dagger. Written in Braille is "One piece of meat a day".
"Is this my price?" The young Chu Lin was sensible earlier than the other children, and he didn't complain or hesitate, picking up the sharp knife and stabbing it on the thigh.
"Hissββββ" Chu Lin couldn't help but exhale softly.
The pain spread all over his body, the pain of being stripped of flesh and blood from his body was indescribable, his whole body convulsed and curled up on the couch, Chu Lin gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, and there was only one belief in his heart, that is, he wanted his mother to live......
The first rays of sunlight in the morning shone on Chu Lin's face, and the pain in his thigh still didn't go away, and he groped his way to his feet.
In the past, at this time, my mother would cook and wake herself up, but today it has not arrived. Chu Lin endured the severe pain and walked to his mother's house, but he didn't hear any sound, obviously no one was at home.
Just as he pondered his mother's whereabouts, the door creaked open.
"Lin'er, today I went to the temple to worship God." Mother pushed the door in and said to Chu Lin with a smile.
Chu Lin saw that his mother was fine, he was secretly happy in his heart at first, and then when he thought of his "price", he immediately asked, "Mother, have you made a wish?"
"Of course I made a wish, but your eyes have been in my heart for half a lifetime." Mother said kindly.
Chu Lin's heart sank, and he asked tentatively, "God, do you ask for a substitute price as a condition of exchange?"
The mother said in surprise: "No, although the villagers of Baifeng Village have always believed in Fengzu, no one has ever seen Fengzu appear, it is just a legend."
Chu Lin couldn't help but stumble backwards when he heard this because of the injury to his leg, and asked in shock, "Is that just a legend?"
The mother stroked Chu Lin's little head and said, "Yes, that's what we believe in our hearts, God."
Although Chu Lin's body was in his mother's arms, his mind didn't know where to go, and the gods that no one had ever seen had actually appeared in front of him many times and helped him fulfill one wish after another.
"Mother, you've been busy all morning, go rest, I'll cook." Chu Lin said obediently and sensibly.
"Lin'er, is your leg injury better?" Mother asked kindly.
Chu Lin, who had just taken a few steps, stopped as if he had been hit by a thousand pounds, turned around and said in surprise: "Okay, it's better."
The mother sighed and said to herself: "Hey, it's really not beautiful, such a handsome and sensible son is actually blind and has a stubborn leg disease."
Chu Lin left without looking back, thinking to himself: "It seems that no matter how much I pay, my mother's subconscious will think that it is a congenital disability."
Time passed day after day, due to the accumulation of "meat cutting", Chu Lin's legs and hidden places on his body were almost out of meat, and in the case of a poor family, his mother tried to buy some tonic products for Chu Lin to replenish his body at the same time, but she felt powerless, for this congenital "lack of meat" stubborn disease, she searched all over the village for famous doctors to no avail.
5 years have passed, and from the outside, Chu Lin doesn't look like a hot-blooded teenager at all, but more like a "human gan" who is on the verge of death, but even so, his heart is very happy, after all, Chu Lin's mother has always been by his side and has never been separated from him.
Seeing that the deadline for the oath was approaching, Chu Lin, who was deaf and almost no flesh and blood remained, almost crawled to the temple. He lay down, and before he could pray, the voice of the * rang out again.
"My poor child, seeing you become like this, as a god, I also feel very distressed, do you want to continue to fulfill your wishes?"
Chu Lin said with difficulty: "Yes, I want to continue, at all costs."
"The third exchange, I want your bones to be exchanged for your mother to be free from illness for 1 month, can you agree?"
"What, has it only been 1 month?" Chu Lin asked in surprise.
"Yes, you heard it right, your mother's longevity is only this last month, of course, you can't survive without flesh and bones, you still have room to regret it now." Feng Zu said slowly.
Chu Lin didn't think much about it, and said lightly: "I am willing, whether it is a year or a month, even if it is only one day, I will not give up.
"Okay, my child, the contract is made, you, you can go".
Chu Lin crawled home with difficulty, and as soon as he entered the room, a cold "steel plate" blocked in front of him, groping for the item in front of him, which was a guillotine, with the inscription "Break a limb in seven days" on it.
"Hahahaha" Chu Lin smiled, with tears in his smile, no wonder he was like this, for a teenager in his teens, this responsibility is indeed heavier.
Closed his eyes, put his left hand into the guillotine, and with a terrible scream, blood flowed out of the wound that had not healed again, and Chu Lin's eyes went black and he passed out.
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Sunlight poured in through the wooden window, shining into the humble room, and the body of a young man with a severed arm lay motionless on the ground, the ground where the blood had flowed had dried up, freezing the heart-rending pain.
"Water" let out a hoarse whisper, and the mother held Chu Lin and carefully fed the water, if Chu Lin's eyesight was still there, he would be able to find that the guillotine knife from yesterday was gone.
"Hey, don't go out to work lately, my hard-working child, why is all the suffering in the world being taken by you alone, but you have lost an arm by a rockfall on the top of the mountain." Mother stroked Chu Lin's hair and said crying.
Chu Lin's consciousness was already very vague, but he could also hear that his mother's had been reframed by Feng Zu again.
Creation makes people, always after Chu Lin experienced the pain of the bone and cone and barely survived, it was the last time to break the limb, of course, the mother and his life, only in the last 7 days.
The guillotine came quietly at the time specified in the contract, Chu Lin put his right arm into the guillotine, and after a terrible scream, his mother's eerie laughter came from beside him......