Chapter 4 Infants

The baby's crying voice became weaker and weaker, and the old man was so anxious that he scratched his heart and liver, and his face was red and his ears were red. He didn't even dare to take a breath of air, for fear that because of the sound of his breathing, he would miss the opportunity to find the woman and the baby.

Time passed by by the second, the sun was already hanging high in the sky, the blue sky was cloudless, and the woman stared at the blue sky in front of her without blinking. And at this time, in her arms, there was a small life lying on her stomach. The little life seemed to be a little tired from crying, and actually fell asleep in his mother's arms.

The woman raised her head with difficulty, reached out and gently stroked the child in her arms, revealing a relieved smile, and then two tears slid down to her cheeks again, and said to God silently: "Husband, Ning'er has lived up to the ancestors of the Shi family, I gave birth to a son for the Shi family!"

It turned out that the woman who screamed and suffered from the pain of childbirth turned out to be Shi Haonan's wife, Mrs. Shi, who was sheltered by the Shi family and escaped from the trap.

Maybe it's God bless the historian, or maybe it's the creation of people. After the woman fainted, the dead leaves fell overnight, and she was covered and hidden underneath, and it was precisely because of this that the woman was able to escape the layers of those brocade guards.

The woman was in labor, with no one else, and an obsession surging in her heart, she had to preserve the last blood of the Shi family. So there will be a shocking cry later, the birth of a son in the forest, attracting the old man in the countryside.

But because the woman had fled overnight, lost her husband, and was in labor in the woods, she was now extremely weak.

I saw that she slowly lowered the hand that was touching the child, took a deep breath, then put one finger to her lips, and then bit the finger violently, bleeding. Then the other hand took out a yellow leather scroll from his bosom, unfolded it, and wrote on the leather scroll with bloody fingers: "My life has been suspended, I have no power to return to the sky, I fled in the forest, gave birth to a son, called Wen Hao, only to be an adult, find the enemy Bian Chengfeng to avenge the Shi clan, a thousand thanks, Jiuquan prays for blessings, please treat the orphans kindly!"

After writing a few brief words, the woman took off the jade hairpin from her head, and then used the jade hairpin to pierce a hole in each corner of the leather scroll, and then untied the waist rope, and threaded it into the hole with difficulty. By the end of all this, the woman's face had become even paler, and her breathing was so weak that she had stopped.

The woman forced herself to put on the leather roll and then put the ropes at both ends of the leather roll around the neck of the baby in her arms, making a simple belly pocket. Then the woman tore her robe to shreds and wrapped the baby in it. Then, the woman reluctantly glanced at the baby she had worked so hard to give birth to, closed her eyes with tears, but a kind maternal love appeared on her face, until she stopped breathing, and finally passed away.

In this way, the woman did not get rid of the arrangement of fate, and passed away peacefully, and I am afraid that no one can understand her inner feelings before she dies. Maybe her heart is dripping blood, or maybe she still has nostalgia for the world, but everything seems to be a cloud of the past, life and death.

The old man Ge naturally didn't know the woman's death, but he still didn't give up looking for the whereabouts of the mother and son at this time, and the kindness in his heart prompted him not to give up, even if he had never met and never knew each other, but it was two lives.

Thinking like this in his heart, Old Man Ge carefully searched the surrounding boys again, but to no avail. Old man Ge sighed: "Alas, it's really weird, the sound is clearly around here, why can't you find it!"

Just as he was wondering and anxious, a crisp sound sounded under his feet, and Old Man Ge was suddenly startled, and hurriedly raised his feet, because this sound did not sound like the sound of a dead branch breaking in the forest, it sounded more crisp, like something like a stone.

Sure enough, when Old Man Ge looked down, there were really two broken jade hairpins under the blades of grass displayed among the fallen leaves. The jade hairpin is as green as blue, and at a glance you know that it is not an ordinary and expensive thing.

Old man Ge squatted down and picked up the two broken jade hairpins, then frowned in distress, and scolded secretly: "You old man who can't open your eyes, such a valuable thing has been broken blindly!

Old man Ge, who was slightly reproaching himself in his heart, suddenly seemed to think of something again, and asked, "Hey, how could such a valuable thing be here, could it be that the woman's head fell off?"

Don't look at this old man Ge is honest and simple, but his brain is very flexible, otherwise how would he make a living by hunting in the mountains and forests.

Thinking of this, Old Man Ge was startled at first, then grinned at his somewhat dry lips, pursed his lips and then looked down, and his intuition told him that the mother and son he was looking for were around here.

At noon, the sun has been hanging high over time, and the sun shines on the earth, slowly fading away a few points of the cool autumn mood.

In the forest, an old man stood melancholy in front of a pile of dirt bags with a swaddling hand in his hand, and the wrinkles of the old eyes were already very wrinkled.

This old man is naturally the old man Ge, there is no doubt about it. Not long ago, after his refusal to give up, he finally found Mrs. Shi who was covered in dead leaves nearby. But it was too late, and when he saw the face of the kind and closed eyes, he knew that this man would not survive. As a result, as he saw, Mrs. Shi had died.

Looking at that young and gray face, Old Man Ge felt a burst of desolation, and only hated that if he could arrive in time, he was afraid that there would be hope for treatment. However, how did Old Man Ge know that Mrs. Shi was actually incurable, and she was riddled with many reasons such as fright, postpartum hemorrhage, wind and cold, how could he be treated by a rural villager.

Holding the baby tightly wrapped in swaddling clothes, Old Man Ge silently picked off the fallen leaves on the soil bag, and sighed: "Alas, it's a pity that this doll has no mother as soon as it was born, and she hasn't even drunk milk." I don't know whose daughter-in-law you are, how did you run into such a barren mountain and wilderness, but you can rest assured, I will take good care of the child, and the old man has no children under his knees, so he will treat each other well. It's just that your family is poor, and seeing that you are richly dressed, I'm afraid you can't support yourself like a young master, and I hope you don't blame me under Jiuquan!"

After speaking, Old Man Ge turned around silently, but he didn't take a few steps, and turned back to the grave he had dug for Mrs. Shi and said, "This child is also given to me by God, and I don't know your family name, in the future, the old man will let him follow my surname, and he will be called Ge Tianyou......!"

The wind volcanic forest is located in the four directions of the Ming Empire. It is named after the Tibetan wind, the fire, the mountain closure, and the afforestation. As the name suggests, there is a family in the place of Tibetan wind, and a family lives in the place of the source of fire, and the historian is also called the forest history family by the rivers and lakes because the people of the past generations have lived in the remote forest sea.

The Shi family lives in the forest all the year round and does not have close contact with the outside world, so it is difficult for anyone in the surrounding villages to know that there is a behemoth living here. It's a pity that no matter how powerful the lion is, there are times when he takes a nap, and the peaceful days have passed for a long time, but over time, he forgets that danger is watching it all the time.

The surrounding area of Shi's house is a huge forest sea, and there are some villages outside the forest, where the people in the village rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water, and live a simple and ordinary life.

Old man Ge was walking back to the village with the baby he picked up, although he couldn't save his mother, but this orphan can be regarded as making him old and having a child, and he will not be afraid of getting old one day in the future, and no one will take care of him when he can't walk.

But he didn't know it as he walked back to the village. At this moment, the home where he has lived for half his life is being wantonly killed by a group of uninvited guests.

[To be continued]