Chapter 18: Ice Heart
Finally, the day of delivery came, and the old man returned as scheduled, and it was evening, with three men waiting outside the door, and the old mother taking delivery inside. Although I knew that I would give birth to a boy smoothly and the names were all chosen, the first father's broken chapter was still anxiously walking back and forth outside.
At the moment when the last rays of sunlight sank into the earth with the setting sun, the cry of a newborn baby was heard from the house. After a while, the old mother opened the door, and some looked at the children and some at the adults, all very happy. After half a ring, everyone went into the house, and the child stopped crying and began to look around.
More than an hour had passed since he was born, and the old man said, "Okay, let's start now, break the chapter, you go and close the door." ”
When he came back from closing the door in a broken chapter, he saw the old man taking out a box the size of an adult's fist from his pocket, and there was a slight chill around it.
The old man opened the box, everyone gathered around, and the old man said: "This is an ice heart I found, and now it is implanted in the intermittent body, so that he is equivalent to having two lives, I hope it can be intermittent for a catastrophe, and I am only eighty percent sure." ”
The old father said excitedly: "I didn't expect that there are such holy relics in the world, I guess it took a lot of effort for my brother to find them, I really don't know how to thank you." ”
The old man said: "My brother is serious, this may also be a good relationship between me and intermittent." ”
Out of context, he said: "If my son can grow up smoothly, he will definitely repay him." ”
The old man smiled and said, "I may have been buried by then." Everyone laughed. The old man continued: "This ice heart can only act on babies who have just been born for less than three hours, and it will be ineffective when it is outdated, so let's start quickly." ”
"Good. ”
The old man took out the ice heart from the box, it was very small and had the shape of a heart. But it's not meaty, the material is more like thousand-year-old ice, deep red, crystal clear. It doesn't feel bloody and horrible in front of you, but it feels like a work of art. It was quiet, without a trace of movement, everyone was amazed and very excited, this will be the hope of the child's life.
The old man took the child from the old mother's hand and said to everyone, "I will take his heart's blood to activate this ice heart, it will be fine, you can rest assured." I have treated you all as my family, and even more so as my grandson. ”
The family members all nodded, and the old man took out a slender silver needle, which was empty in the middle. He stabbed the child's heart in the spot, and the child frowned but didn't cry. The daughter-in-law couldn't bear to look at it directly, although she knew it was for his good, she still felt that it hurt more than she did. Judging from the length of the insertion, it should have been inserted into his heart, and crimson blood flowed out of the inner tube of the silver needle, dripping on the ice heart at the old man's intention.
One drop, two drops, three drops, the ice heart reacted, and it absorbed all the boiling blood in the heart. Now its color is more crimson, and it seems to have lost the thousand-year-old chill, and it is slowly becoming warmer.
The old man took out the silver needle and quickly handed the child into the hands of the broken chapter. After the silver needle was extracted, the blood also began to flow out rapidly, and what should have dripped to the ground was always flowing on the ice center in an arc.
Bingxin's reaction began to become more and more violent, and the blood that fell on it was completely absorbed, and it also emitted a brilliant red light, like a red night pearl, illuminating the entire room. After a while, you can clearly see that it is moving, moving and still, which is the frequency of the heartbeat, and if you listen closely, you will find that it is completely synchronized with the intermittent heartbeat. At this time, everyone felt the subtle rhythm and laughed.
The old man cautiously picked up the ice heart and approached it intermittently, and the blood actually flowed diagonally upwards towards the ice heart. As he got closer, his small chest became translucent, and he could clearly see the bloody blood. After the ice center approached, the blood vessels branched into two and stretched out of the body to connect to the ice center. The beating of the ice heart is also more powerful, no longer as cold and stiff as before, now it is like a small heart growing outside the body, the red light is great, and the people around him feel a strong breath of life.
After several aortas and ice hearts are connected, they beat at the same frequency as the small heart in the body. After a few seconds, Bing Xin broke away from the old man's hand, and slowly flew towards the intermittent chest under the traction of several main blood vessels, slowly sinking into the chest, to merge with the heart in the body. The previously bifurcated blood vessel also became one again, and after a while, the two hearts finally merged into one, the chest was no longer translucent, the red light was completely restrained in the body, and the pinhole was healed without a trace.
The child was still looking around, his little hands were casually stretched out, and there was no change at all, and if he hadn't witnessed the whole process, he wouldn't have known what had happened.
The old man said, "Everything is going very well, and I can only help here, so I will ask for more blessings later!" He stayed here for one night, and he was also very fond of the child. Left early the next morning without saying that he would come back.
On the afternoon of the third day after the birth of the child, the old mother sat on a chair with her grandson in her arms, and the family sat around. The old mother looked at the child very kindly, and the child also looked at her, and suddenly the child smiled brightly.
The old mother was very happy and said, "It's all worth it." With that, she leaned back in her chair and died, smiling and walking quietly.
The old father took the child and looked at his wife very calmly: "I will come to you in three years, our grandson will definitely grow up, and everything we have done is worth it." ”
For the next three years, the child remained healthy, slowly crawling out of the swaddling clothes, crawling around on the ground, and then slowly standing up and running around in front of and behind the house. From the babbling spoken language, it gradually became clear, knowing how to call father, mother, and grandfather.
It's just that the adults next door don't let their children get close to him, because once they get close, there will be serious illness and small pain, and after a few experiments, the rumors spread in the village, but his family doesn't care about other people's gossip at all, and the family of four still lives a happy life.
When the child was three and a half years old, it rained heavily one night, and the next day the grandfather took the child to play, and the child ran to play under a small slope. A large rock on the slope suddenly loosened and rolled down, and when it was about to hit the child, the grandfather quickly ran over and grabbed the child and threw it out.
When the child got up, he saw his grandfather crawling on the ground, his back and the corners of his mouth were bloody, and the stone had already crushed his grandfather's back.
"Grandpa, grandpa, what's wrong with you?" the child cried when he saw that grandpa was wrong, but he didn't know what was going on.
When the grandfather saw his grandson running over and crying and shouting, he knew that he was okay, so he smiled and said, "Seeing that you are okay, I am worth it." With that, he left the world with a smile on his face.
Another three years passed, and he was six years old. On his birthday, his mother suddenly felt unwell and was afraid of wind and cold, and later asked a doctor to diagnose that she had wind chills.
At night, when the child fell asleep, the two sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him, and the wife said to her husband: "He is still so young, I want to spend more time with him, even if it is one more day, but according to the current physical condition, it may not be able to survive this month." ”
The husband wiped away his wife's tears and said, "No, I will let you see the last day of the child's sixth." ”
"These are predestined, and there is no need to force them. ”
"We are not against the will of God, this is still within the time frame it has set, we have to fight for the deadline, you and I must not give up. I also need you to spend more time with me, even if it's for one more day. ”
The husband also shed tears, and the man does not cry easily, but if he sheds tears, then the tears must contain unbearable pain and helplessness.
The wife wiped away her husband's tears and said, "Okay, I won't give up, I will try to spend as much time as possible with you father and son, because you really make me feel at ease." She said with a smile, but the helplessness in her voice was obviously revealed, and she couldn't hide it at all.
After a while, the wife asked, "The child is already six years old, and it is time to send him to study and write." ”
The husband said: "The gentleman who teaches will not accept it, and the parents of the other children will not agree to let him go in to study together, saying that our children are a lonely star and will bring bad luck to the people around them." ”
When the wife heard this, she said, "They can't be blamed for this, they are just afraid, and they have no malice." ”
The husband nodded: "Yes." Our son may be a big man in the future, and throughout history, all such people will suffer some hardships in the early stage to sharpen his mind. ”
His wife smiled when she heard this: "Well, yes." Then let me teach this future big man, anyway, I can't do anything in this state, just so I can let him accompany me more. ”
"Hmm. ”