Chapter 2 A Baby Boy Born in a Pile of Stones

The villagers lit fires in the caves to keep warm, and listened with trepidation to the raging meteor showers outside. After a while, Mu Li pushed the woman back with them. After everyone worked together to settle the woman, they gathered around Mu Li to ask what was going on.

"Water, water......" the woman said in a daze.

"Wake up, wake up. Shi Lan said happily, her voice attracting everyone's attention. She brought the water to the woman's mouth, and the woman quickly finished drinking.

"Who are you, and how are you in our village?" asked the village chief, Shi Youdao, as he began to look the woman up and down, and finally his gaze fell on a droplet-shaped piece of jade hanging from the woman's chest.

"I'm ......" The woman who had just woken up looked around curiously in confusion, she tried to recall, but her mind went blank, "I can't remember." ”

"What's your name?" Shi Youdao tried again, his eyes kept on the small piece of jade.

"My name is ......" The woman's head began to ache and she shook her head.

"I guess I hit my head and can't remember it for a while. Shi Lan guessed.

The woman suddenly covered her stomach with her hands, frowning in pain, and the amniotic fluid ran down her legs.

"It's going to give birth! It should be that he took refuge in the car just now, and the tire gas was moving, and the child was going to come out early. An aunt exclaimed.

Everyone hurriedly sent the woman into the deepest part of the cave, and soon, pots of hot water were brought to the aunts clearly, and shockingly red quilts were brought out. Shi Lan watched all this quietly, recalling the scene when she was about to give birth, and said, "If our children could survive back then, it is estimated that they would be so old." Mu Li on the side looked at his sad wife and silently put his hand on her shoulder gently.

At this time, Granny Ma, who was sitting in the middle of the cave, seemed to be asleep. The light of the fire beating in the cave reflected on her, and she saw that her face resembled the body of a thousand-year-old tree, full of wrinkles, but she had strange black hair. Her already thin body was even weaker by her shrunken frame, and she was dressed in jet-black with sleeves so wide that she could pull anything out of it. Whether it is the heavy and rough metal collar with a high neck and neck sleeves faintly revealing white, or the green cane in her hand, it adds infinite mystery to her.

This Ma Po is the only matchmaker in the Stone Belt, her life history has always been a mystery, a person in the west of the village deep in the Titan Ancient Forest is a simple and simple not to say, even the oldest people in the village have no accurate name of this Ma Po Po origin and age, more importantly, this Ma Po Woman unless she does not prophesy, once the prophecy is almost always an ominous prophecy, and every time it is true! This time it is her prophecy that makes everyone evade the catastrophe.

Quite suddenly, Granny Ma hissed and sat stiffly on the stone, and the village chief, Shi Youdao, immediately raised his hand to signal everyone to calm down. The air seemed to stop flowing and freeze all at once. The villagers, who had just escaped the meteor shower and were afraid of the noise, suddenly quieted down, and the children who kept crying suddenly stopped their voices, only occasionally making a few silent sobs. The villagers looked at the strange matchmaker in horror, knowing that she was about to appear to make an ominous prophecy again.

I saw that her eyelids began to beat, and the villagers sitting next to her moved their bodies uneasily, and many villagers swallowed their saliva nervously. Suddenly, she began to speak in a voice that was not at all like her own, and said hoarsely:

"Flying stones outside the sky, the stars are in chaos. The disaster star descends into the world, and the spiritual world is destroyed!"

The old matchmaker's head fell forward on her chest. Villagers, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know if Granny Ma has finished prophesying, and I don't dare to disturb her. Also quite suddenly, Granny Ma's was lifted up again.

"It's so warm in the cave, you know...... I seem to have slept for a while......" Seeing that the villagers were still staring at her motionless, "is there anything wrong?"

Suddenly, the baby's newborn cry came from the deepest part of the cave, and at the same time, a huge fireball outside with a long colorful tail fell from the sky and fell rapidly towards the east end of the village, causing a mushroom cloud of smoke and dust on the ground, and smashed deep through the ground, forming a huge deep pit. The terrifying impact shook the cave, and an aunt staggered out of the depths of the cave, and shouted through the sand and gravel that had fallen due to the tremor: "Birth, birth, it's a boy! Mother and child are safe!"

Hearing this, Shi Lan and Mu walked in quickly from them, Granny Ma slowly followed with staggering steps, but the others stood still, and a villager dreamily repeated Granny Ma's prophecy just now: "Flying stones outside the sky, the stars are in chaos." The Calamity Star ......".

At this moment, on the top of a huge tower that I don't know how many miles away from the stone village, seven old men with gray and white steel rings around their necks sat around an extremely mysterious spirit array, looking at the four ancient spirit runes that appeared in the sky above the array:

"Long Yuan is a thing in a stone, and when it encounters a stone, it will turn into a dragon. The Nine Dragons roared shockingly, and the butterfly with broken wings swam in the water. ”

Next to the spirit array, a woman's cold voice sounded: "Long Yuanxian, the prophesied son of the soul destroyer will be born within the year, for the spirit world, before he grows up, he must be found and wiped out ......"

In the deepest part of the cave, the woman was lying on a flat boulder, holding a baby in her arms, and on her slender neck hung a drop-shaped blue jade, which faintly revealed blue light lines like water on her sweaty neck. It seems that the woman is less than 23 years old, her body is a little thin, but her skin is like clotted fat, and her fair face is a pair of delicate and firm eyes. On the whole, although it gives people a weak and can't help it, it makes people have an indescribable sense of fortitude emanating from their bones.

At this moment, the woman looked weakly at the baby curled up in the swaddling clothes, smiled slightly, and revealed two shallow dimples.

"Is this your choice?" Granny Ma's expression was complicated, she looked at the droplet-shaped blue jade, as if talking to it, as if talking to herself, and then she stretched out her thin hand and gently pinched the back of the baby in the woman's arms, and said in a solemn tone, "Your child's bones are different from ordinary people, I am afraid that he will be disabled when he grows up in the future." ”

"Thank you, I have felt it from the moment I held him, he is my flesh and blood, and I will raise him Seihito no matter what. The woman looked up at the strange old man in front of her and said calmly.

"I heard that it was you who risked your lives in the village to save our mother and son," the woman turned to Shi Lan and his wife gratefully, "Your great kindness, we will definitely remember it." ”

"It's just a gesture," Shi Lan said lightly, "I almost forgot that there was a letter that fell out of you." ”

Mu Wan'er took the letter handed by Shi Lan in confusion, unfolded it, and saw only a short sentence written on it: "I'll rush back immediately", and at the end of the payment was a strange symbol - "fu".

"Does the content of the letter remind you of anything?" Shi Lan asked with concern.

Mu Wan'er shook her head in disappointment.

"Maybe I'll remember it later," Shi Lan said with relief, "Did you choose a name for the baby?" she looked at the baby in distraction.

"No, I can't even remember my name. The woman smiled wryly.

"Then you will be called Mu Wan'er for the time being. Shi Lan said, her eyes eager.

"Old woman, what bad idea do you have, this name is ......" Mu Li said urgently.

"That's right, Mu Wan'er is the name we chose for our daughter, but she died shortly after she was born," Shi Lan interrupted Mu Li's words and said frankly, "If you mind, just do it." ”

"Thank you, I like this name very much, then I'll name Mu Wan'er for the time being," the woman smiled slightly, she lowered her head and said to the baby in her arms, "My son, my mother has a name, it's called Mu Wan'er, so what's your name?"

Hearing this, Shi Lanton had a strange feeling that his daughter seemed to continue to live in this world in another form. She turned to Granny Ma and said, "Granny Ma, I heard that the matchmaker named the newborn baby, and the baby will have a safe and blessed life. Otherwise, Granny Ma, you can choose a name for Wan'er's child. ”

"It's my pleasure. Granny Ma said, meditating silently as she walked around the large stone bed. As she first walked out of the seventh step, she had an idea:

"When this child was born, it was raining stones in the village, and he was born on the stone bed in the stone cave in the stone village, so I named him Zilei, one is to take the meaning of being born in a pile of stones, the second is to hope that he can be as strong as a stone, and the third is to wish him to be like a rock in the future, tenaciously facing all kinds of trials and tribulations of life. ”

"Zilei, surnamed Mu, Mu Zi ......" When she thought of this, she seemed to have touched Mu Wan'er, but she couldn't remember it anyway.

"Wan'er, what do you think of the name?" Granny Ma's words interrupted Mu Wan'er's thoughts.

"It's very good, just take this name," Mu Wan'er smiled, she lowered her head and said softly to the baby in her arms, "My son, you will be called Mu Zilei in the future, do you like it?"

In reply, the baby stretched out his little hand and touched the jade on Mu Wan'er's neck, yawning contentedly.