Chapter 3: The Heart Knot
Yu Cai could only lower his head and not look at Fang Jian.
'Bang' is the sound of wood hitting the ground.
Yu Cai followed the sound and looked up at Fang Jian, who was sitting on the ground, he no longer had the momentum to hit her just now, and tears were magically hanging all over his face. Yu Cai endured the pain and asked weakly, "What's wrong?" ”
Fang Jian was like a child who had finally attracted the attention of his parents, and looked at Yu Cai with an aggrieved expression, "I don't really want to beat you, you said that if you can give birth to a son, you will not live up to my efforts for so many nights, and you can also make our Fang family have a light on their faces, and there will be successors." ”
Yu Cai lowered her head again when she heard Fang Jian's words, she wanted to say that even if she could conceive, being beaten like this by him would be long gone.
But Yu Cai held back, "Why don't we go see the doctor or something." ”
Yu Cai felt Fang Jian's sudden approach, she looked at Fang Jian with a frightened expression, she couldn't say a word, she shouted in her heart: It's over.
Fang Jian just picked up Yu Cai, "Then let's go and have a look." ”
For most of the next six months, Yu Cai had a better life than before, the only hard thing was to eat all kinds of traditional Chinese medicine, and every time she drank it and wanted to vomit, she would say, "In order to be able to live, in order not to be beaten again." ”
In addition to drinking medicine, Yu Cai would be taken by Fang Jian to the goddess outside the village every month to see the pulse statue, and to be baptized by a smoky and burning ceremony to invite children.
On a June day, the sun was scorching the world, and even hiding in the house made Yu Cai feel unbearably hot. The Chinese medicine in front of him was still steaming, "In order to be able to live, in order not to be beaten again." After Yu Cai finished talking to herself, she saw that she picked up the Chinese medicine, closed her eyes, and drank it all with her mouth. After drinking the Chinese medicine, I immediately felt a layer of fine sweat on my body, which made the heat a little more sticky.
In addition to the slimy discomfort, there is another thing that makes Yu Cai's heart even more uncomfortable. Today is the ninth baptism she is going to receive at the goddess, who said that she will have to be one to appear and conceive a child.
On such a hot day, in such a state, Yu Cai really didn't want to go, but when she thought that it was the last time, she could only endure it, stand up and find clothes to change into.
Before Yu Cai could walk to the closet, Fang Jian came back.
"Hurry up, it's the last time, don't let the fairy grandma wait." Fang Jian was a little anxious.
Yu Cai looked down at the clothes on his body, they were still clean, so he gave up the idea of changing clothes, if he let Fang Jian wait for him to change clothes, he would probably be scolded.
"Okay, let's go." Yu Cai tugged at his clothes and kept up with Fang Jian's pace.
The weather outside was hotter than the inside of the house, Yu Cai felt that she was more tired than a few days ago, and her body was getting weaker and weaker, she wanted Fang Jian to help her.
Yu Cai looked at Fang Jian who was walking in front, it was like a walking ice cellar, there was no sign of heat, if he said that he was too hot to have strength, he would definitely be reprimanded, so Yu Cai gave up the idea of letting Fang Jian help her. In the baptism of sweat, she finally came to the residence of the goddess all the way.
The goddess had already set up a canopy, and she sat in the awning, holding a chicken feather fan in her hand, and every time she fanned it, in addition to the cool wind, there were also chicken feathers flying down from the fan, and she didn't care.
When the goddess saw Fang Jian and Yu Cai's figures coming from a distance, the corners of her mouth were grinning, and her eyes narrowed into a slit because of the smile, "Well, it's finally the last time today, and you can collect the money." ”
After Fang Jian and Yu Cai entered the courtyard, they first kowtowed to the goddess. Fang Jian pious like a believer, "Fairy Grandma, I'm tired of you." ”
The goddess accepted the bow with a happy face, and after Fang Jian finished speaking, she nodded again, "Since I am entrusted by the mandate of heaven, I will naturally send my son home." She didn't care about the chicken feathers flying around her at all, her face had long since lost the smile she had just had, and she had replaced it with a calm face, which was her vanity of treating herself as a fairy.
"Let your daughter-in-law sit on that cushion as usual." After speaking, the chicken feather fan in the hand of the goddess stopped shaking, and instead followed the direction of her hand, pointing to the mat not far from her.
"Yes." The pious Fang Jian helped Yu Cai up, helped him to sit down on the mat, and walked under the tree not far away as usual, because the goddess said that the child belongs to the yin, so when asking the son to cast a spell, there can be no yang energy within ten meters.
Fang Jian sat down against the shade of the tree, straightened up, closed his eyes and entered a state of prayer, as usual, he bothered and greeted the immortals and bodhisattvas one by one, just to ask for a son.
The goddess's head nodded slowly, very satisfied with Fang Jian's consciousness, and turned to look at Yu Cai in front of him, "You also close your eyes." ”
"Okay." Yu Cai obediently slowly closed his eyes, waiting for the last smoky fire to attack.
Seeing that Fang Jian and Yu Cai had closed their eyes, the goddess put down the chicken feather fan, took a large handful of incense from the box next to her cushion, and the old Long Zhong's body stood up with difficulty, walked to the stove and lit the incense, and wiped the sweat beads on her head with a wave of her sleeves.
Then, the goddess walked to Yu Cai again and again, like planting rice, put incense around Yu Cai, and after the incense was placed, she wiped the tears smoked by the incense, while chanting the words back and forth in front of Yu Cai, in the words of the goddess, this is asking for the eyes of heaven to be opened, so that the divine yin can see.
It didn't take long to chant the mantra to open the eyes of the sky, and after reciting the mantra, the goddess walked to the place where she had just gotten up and sat down, and the chicken feather fan in her hand was fanned without a match, and it didn't take long for the chicken feather fan to stop, and the goddess fell asleep.
Yu Cai felt the smell of smoke from the shop, and instantly felt disgusted, but when he thought that this was praying to Shenyin for his own son, he endured it for more than half an hour, and finally he didn't hold back, and spit out all the Chinese medicine he had drunk before going out.
After vomiting, Yu Cai was still a little retching, she secretly looked at the goddess with the afterglow of her eyes, she remembered all the reactions of the goddess, and she had some doubts in her heart: How does this woman look like a lie, can I really conceive a child?
But Yu Cai didn't say it, she quickly lowered her eyes and continued to retching following her body's true reaction.
The goddess woke up from her dream when she heard the voice, and her rickety body was stretched out like a flower, she shook in front of Yu Cai as fast as she could, and asked Yu Cai breathlessly, "Why did you vomit?" ”
Yu Cai really didn't want to deal with the goddess, but he couldn't show it, so he could only use more large movements to show that he was retching harder.
Seeing this, the goddess made her rickety body bend down, gently patted Yu Cai's back, and then grabbed Yu Cai's right hand and put it in the air, putting her fingers on the wrist of Yu Cai's right hand.
After a while, the goddess put down Yu Cai's hand, bent down and put away the tail roots of the remaining incense burned on the ground one by one, and then turned around and walked to the incense burner, put the remaining incense in the incense burner, and then folded her hands together and made a broken thought.
Leaving a stunned face, Yu Cai didn't know whether to sit obediently or continue to retch.
After finishing reading, the goddess turned around and walked to her original seat and sat down, picked up the chicken feather fan and continued to fan, "Go, call your man over." ”
Yu Cai stood up with his hands on the ground, endured the numbness on his feet and walked in front of Fang Jian, "The master, the family, the family..."
After three sounds, Fang Jian slowly woke up from his sleep, "How's it going?" ”
Yu Cai looked like he didn't know how to express it, "Grandma Fairy called you over." Actually, Yu Cai hates the title of fairy grandma very much, but Fang Jian said that everything is sincere, how can it reflect sincerity even if he is casually called, so Yu Cai can only call the goddess like this.
Fang Jian and Yu Cai walked in front of the goddess, knelt down as if they had just entered the door, and after kowtowing to the goddess, Fang Jian took the lead in speaking, "Please ask the fairy grandmother to show it." ”
The goddess watched the two of them walk in front of her, and bowed down again, and her hypocritical heart was greatly satisfied, "The fate is there, the incense money, go home and treat your woman well, don't work hard, don't stimulate beating and scolding, only this one child, cherish it, if not, you will have no queen." ”
Fang Jian reverently pulled Yu Cai and kowtowed to the goddess again, "Dare to ask the fairy grandmother, is this baby a male or a female baby." ”
The face of the goddess changed greatly, "It is not easy to have a child, how can you easily disturb the gods and beg men and women." However, in all things the heart is the spirit. ”
Fang Jian hurriedly apologized with a smile on his face, and seeing that the goddess's face softened, he hurriedly got up, took out ten yuan from his clothes pocket and handed it to the goddess, "Fairy grandmother, this is the money for the last three times, and the extra piece is considered to be filial piety to you." ”
The goddess who saw the money naturally smiled with a smile on her face, "One more piece, I will also add it to all the gods for you, and ask you for a big fat boy." ”
"Then thank you Grandma Fairy." Fang Jianhuan happily returned home with Yu Cai, and intimately asked Yu Cai if he was tired, if he wanted to drink water, or if he wanted to eat......
Fang Jian's series of actions made Yu Cai so surprised that she couldn't speak, she just shook her head like a puppet to express her need. After easing her mood, Yu Cai felt that this kind of treatment was really good, she still had a trace of gratitude to the goddess, after all, it was the goddess who let her know that her man still had such a gentle side, yes, Fang Jian at this time was as gentle as the sun in spring, the cool breeze in summer, the harvest in autumn, and the stove in winter.
As the days passed, Yu Cai's belly also grew bigger day by day, and Fang Jian would happily chat with the child in Yu Cai's belly every day when he came back from outside.
"Son, can you hear Daddy?"
"Son, are you very well-behaved today?"
"Son, do you have any activities today?"
"Son, have you eaten enough today?"
"Son, do you have anything you want to eat today?" ......
Whenever this happens, Yu Cai will look at Fang Jian with a happy face, she also hopes that she is pregnant with a son, the old man often says that sour children are spicy girls, she basically eats sour food now, whether she likes it or not, whether she wants to eat it or not.
Although Yu Cai rarely goes out and walks around, he still occasionally meets a few acquaintances, and they look at Yu Cai with a big belly, in addition to asking her to pay attention to her body, they will also guess whether the child in her belly is male or female, and all of them basically say that it is a boy.
Whenever this happens, although Yu Cai says that it is the same for both boys and girls, he is so happy in his heart that he hears that it is a boy.
Yu Cai's treatment has been enjoyed on April 19 of the second year, the day of birth has finally come, she is begging for the divine yin in the pain before every birth: all the bodhisattvas, all the gods, must be a son, as long as it is a son, I will burn incense and worship every day in the future, and I will have tea and light rice every day to show my piety.