Chapter Twenty-Six: The River Against the Current
End of chapter. "Hard, the child's head is coming out, hard. The midwife on the side kept saying.
I saw Xue Qing sweating profusely in pain, clutching the sheets with both hands, her muscles were exposed, and the sweat soaked her clothes, she shouted hoarsely: "Ah...... It hurts......"
At this time, with a cry of "Wow ......", Dong Luo's son was born.
The midwife smiled and said, "Congratulations, congratulations! It's a baby boy." ”
Dong Yong hurriedly took the child, and happily closed his mouth, as if picking up money...... The more he looked at this child, the more he liked it, and shouted to Dong Luo: "Son, come and see, how much he looks like you when you were a child!"
Dong Luo glanced at the child, and his originally smiling face suddenly collapsed, and the more he looked at the child, the more he felt that he didn't look like himself. Suddenly, the image I saw in the brothel that day came to my mind. Dong Luo thought to himself: This child is definitely not my species. The more he looked at the child, the more unpleasant he became, and he wanted to kill the child.
Xue Qing, who had just given birth to a child, was pale and her eyes were dull. She lay on the bed dumbfounded, staring at Xianggong Dong Luo. said: "Xianggong!"
Dong Luo was very dissatisfied with this child, and when he heard Xue Qing calling himself, he forced a smile and said, "Hmm!
Xue Qing didn't notice anything unusual about Dong Luo at all, and still said with great interest: "Xianggong, let's give our son a name!"
"Oh, let me think about it!", Dong Luo said perfunctorily.
Dong Yong suddenly thought: "It's okay to call Dong Qiang." Expecting that his future grandson would not be as weak as his son, he simply gave him a strong one.
Shi Niang couldn't stand them anymore, and said: "It's (Yong) Yong, it's (Luo) weak, and it's (Qiang) strong, can't you change some fresh words?
"Dong Qiang, this name is good. Xue Qing said.
Dong Luo didn't say anything about the good or bad name, he didn't care about what this kid was called, he just thought about how to get rid of this thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh.
In the dead of night, Dong Luo, who was lying on the bed, thought that his son was not his own species, so he held his breath in his heart and wanted to vent. He swooped out of bed with a washbasin in his hand. Feeling dark, sneaky, and went in the direction of the river behind. When he went, it was still empty, but when he came back, it was filled with most of the water, and he was so tired that he was sweating profusely and panting, which showed that he had moved a lot of water. He took his son Dong Qiang out of the room, quietly took off his tattered clothes, and immersed him in the basin of water he had just moved back.
The child didn't struggle much, but it floated on the water like foam, Dong Luo had no choice but to move a dirty big stone from the outside and press it on his son.
Dong Qiang in the water was choked and her face turned red, and she cried "wow".
The cry woke up Xue Qing in her sleep, and Xue Qing heard the child's cry, but she didn't see her son, so she hurriedly came out to see.
Dong Luo heard footsteps coming here, and hurriedly moved the boulder that was pressing on his son's body away.
"Xianggong, what are you doing here?" Xue Qing asked curiously. Glancing at the water in the basin, she was surprised to find that the water was actually red. "Hey, why is the water in this basin red? ”
"Lady, Xianggong, I'm bathing my son!" Dong Luo couldn't help but argue.
"Take a bath? What should I do if I take a bath in the middle of the night and freeze my son?" Xue Qing picked up her son in the water again and looked at her son distressedly. I saw that the child in my arms was still crying. "My son is good, don't cry!"
Dong Luo looked at his son and thought: Little bastard, you are lucky this time! He said with a smile: "Lady, do you know that taking a bath in the middle of the night is good for the child's health, has the effect of strengthening the body, and is not easy to get sick." My dad used to give me a bath in the middle of the night when I was a kid. ”
"Yes! Xue Qing nodded, thinking: Xianggong will never lie to me.
Dong Luo stepped forward and kissed Dong Qiang, and said with a smile: "Lady, it's cold outside, let's go back to the room to rest!"
"Okay!" Xue Qing said.
After a rooster crowed, the sky was just dawning, and Dong Luo didn't know where to hear it, and all the fish in the ditch behind him floated.
Dong Luo, who hadn't eaten fish for a long time, drooled. Quickly picked up the bucket at home to fish, wiping saliva along the way, while thinking about catching a few fish and going back to make up for the lady's body.
Many villagers around the shore have fished in the river with hooks, fishing nets, buckets, and basins. This kind of once-in-a-century good thing alarmed the people of Shili and Eight Villages, and many people rushed over to grab fish. Because they can only encounter such good things in their dreams, but they never expected it to happen in reality.
The crimson water was no longer as clear as ever, like a river of blood, the water was turbulent, and the water roared like a ghost, which was particularly strange, and there was an indescribable dead silence. People don't seem to be aware of these phenomena, but just watch the floating fish with glowing eyes, and frantically scramble to float the fish, and sometimes fight because they haven't caught a big fish, as if they haven't eaten a fish for hundreds of years.
Thousands of fish floated on the surface of the water like dead men, and the fish tumbled back and forth in agony as if they had just been out of a pan of oil in the rapids. Dong Luo wondered that he was so clumsy, a person who could only catch fish in a bowl, and he also caught several small fish, he was returning with a full load today!
When the palace heard about this strange thing, they rushed to beat it up, and they suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
"Have you ever noticed that the river is flowing backwards? Lingxiao said.
Ling Xiao just glanced at it, and found that the river was actually flowing from west to east, but those mortal eyes didn't notice it at all.
Dong Luo, who was only concerned about going home to cook fish, said: "I didn't see it!"
"He's right, we don't see it either. The villagers each picked up the basket, some of them in their arms, and some of them behind their backs, for fear that someone would rob them.
When the time came to witness the miracle, Lingxiao picked up a leaf from the ground and put it into the river, and the leaf that had just fallen into the water was like a small boat heading east. When all the people present saw this thrilling scene, they suddenly realized and were dumbfounded.
Through this calm water, Lingxiao vaguely saw a huge black shadow swimming under the water, but her vision was blocked by the fluttering aquatic plants, hazy, and she couldn't see what it was!"Everyone be careful, there's something underwater!" she said again.
"What is it?" asked the villagers, puzzled, and they thought to themselves: this blue-eyed girl is just different, and she can see things that they can't see.
"Could it be a water ghost?" Dong Luo said.
As soon as they heard the word water ghost, the villagers ran away as if they had lost their souls, and did not forget to take the fish from the basket with them before leaving.