Chapter Twenty-Three: The Lady Undresses Her Pregnancy
At the end of the hour, a bright moon shone on a sparkling pond in the west of the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ Not far from the west side of the Info Reservoir is the city wall, and on the east side is a bank of hundred-year-old weeping willows, thousands of weeping willows hang down to the water like a curtain, separating the pond from a dilapidated Tanah Lot temple on both sides. This Tanah Lot temple also has a history of hundreds of years, the pond and weeping willows are still excavated and planted when people build the temple, because according to the folk saying, the sea god must be built on the seaside to have boundless divine power, although the pond is small, with the weeping willow like smoke to separate the eyes of the sea god, but also make the sea god mistakenly think that he is facing the sea. This way of building temples is very suspected of deceiving the gods, but the common people do not feel any disrespect for the gods. In fact, except for the time when there is a request for the gods, who will take the wooden clay sculptures in the temple to heart?
Probably because of the lack of efficacy, this Tanah Lot temple has now basically stopped the incense offerings, if it were not for a wealthy merchant nearby who would simply repair it every year, under the wind and rain, I am afraid it would have collapsed into a ruin. And that rich merchant is not a good man and a woman, just because he is surnamed Xu like the god of the sea, he boasts that he is the descendant of the god of the sea god, and since he is the descendant of the god of the sea, he can't watch the house of the old ancestor collapse and be displaced, so he can only make a little bit of silver to maintain the faΓ§ade of the old ancestor and give himself a long face.
Nearby residents all know that there is a street child living in the temple. The homeless children regarded this temple as their home, knocked and repaired the windows in the temple, and saved up the money from the sale of seafood to install a door for it, so that this sacred house really became a private house. Although this house is extremely dilapidated, it is also smaller than the ordinary size of the house, but it is really a white house, so the people around who have long forgotten the god of the sea rethink the god of the sea as if they have made an appointment, and they come to ask for an explanation every once in a while, but unfortunately the street children have always been closed, so under the instruction of the adults, more and more children came to the sea temple to smash the windows and kick the door, and went to the beach to find the trouble of the street children. The homeless child has not had enough to eat and sleep well for a long time, but she still stubbornly guards her home, and has not escaped the consciousness of right and wrong.
Jin Luohua walked along the pond in the moonlight, and her posture was as charming as the weeping willow in the wind. Walking to the temple, she tried to push the closed door, which made only a slight noise but did not open, apparently locked inside. A little girl lives here alone, and the basic precautions cannot be ignored. Jin Luohua thought about it for a while, and gently slapped the door panel with his hand: "Child, open the door, I am your neighbor, I live across the pond, and I have come to deliver some food to you." β
Her voice was as gentle as water, and it was carried into the temple with the summer night breeze, stirring up a sound of sooting, but soon it was as silent as before, and the door did not open.
This was not unexpected. No matter how gentle the voice is, he is a stranger, and if this child is so easy to be trusted, I am afraid that he will not be able to live alone. She did bring a small bag of handmade snacks, but not to bring food to the girl, nor just to thank the other party for saving her son. After coming back, she heard about what happened at the beach, and she specially asked Lin Du for the details of how she was rescued. Lin Du naturally concealed his suspected punch that only a cultivator could throw, and explained everything else truthfully. Jin Luohua was quite surprised after hearing this, and had some different thoughts, so she didn't bring Lin Du or Su'er, and came here alone to see this little girl with a great background.
The little girl refused to open the door, and Jin Luohua could not mention the incident on the beach, for some reason, if she claimed to be here to thank her for saving her son's life, she believed that the other party would be more wary. So the tip of her left thumb swiped lightly on the ring on her ring finger, and she activated the short-distance teleportation ability attached to the ring, and the whole person disappeared in place, and the next moment, she had appeared in the Tanah Lot Temple. With the help of the moonlight thrown into the window, she saw a bright dagger suddenly against her lower abdomen, and at the same time, the little girl was greeted with a cold cry and asked, "Who are you?"
The moonlight illuminated the girl's childish and beautiful face, and she tilted her face slightly, looking at the young woman in front of her. She was so short that the dagger couldn't reach her opponent's heart, so she had to barely press against her opponent's lower abdomen. In fact, she knew that it was useless to do this, the other party could break in like this, it must not be an ordinary person, but she couldn't think of any other means of self-defense for a while.
A smile appeared on the corner of Jin Luohua's mouth, feeling that this little girl was really cute, so she reached out and gently stroked the girl's hair, and said gently, "I am the one who wants to take you away." β
The girl turned her head sideways to avoid Jin Luohua's hand, and her little face was still cold: "I'm not leaving." Why should I go with you?"
"Because I can feed you and clothe you warmly, and I can teach you to learn words and read, it is better than you being a child here who is hungry and frightened. You see, this Tanah Lot temple is in disrepair, and it may collapse when it rains a lot, and you don't want to be smashed in by mud and stone bricks, right?"
The girl looked at her fixedly and pursed her lips slightly: "Why do you want to give me food and clothing? I don't need handouts!"
"Almsgiving?" Jin Luohua couldn't help but laugh dumbly, thinking that the little girl's idea was really interesting, she spread her hands helplessly: "Okay, just think of it as a charity, but this is something that others can't ask for, why do you want to refuse? You must know that there are thousands of little beggars in the entire Great Zhou Empire who are starving and frozen......"
"I'm not a beggar," the girl interrupted Jin Luohua, "Mother said that it is better to die than to live on other people's alms." β
"It's very backbone!" Jin Luohua praised, and then shook his head, "But it's hard for poor people to think like this, your mother can say such things, I guess your original family background should be very good, did you end up here?"
The girl was visibly stunned for a moment, then eagerly denied: "No, it's not!"
After all, a child is a child, and such a reaction only affirmed Jin Luohua's guess in disguise, so Jin Luohua smiled in his heart, but on the surface, he sighed regretfully, and whispered to himself: "It's difficult to do this." Then she shook her head slightly, took out a bag of things out of nowhere, and placed it on a broken table with a missing leg by the window: "This is a snack for you, and there is no poison in it." Nothing else, I'm leaving. β
She turned, unlocked the door from the inside, pushed it open, and a silvery moonlight rushed into the temple. She walked out without hesitation, but wondered if the little girl would keep out of curiosity. Sure enough, as soon as she took a step, she heard the immature voice behind her sound again: "What's the matter with you?"
Jin Luohua stopped, looked back at the girl standing in the moonlight, and looked hesitantly: "There was originally a very important matter for you, but now ......"
"Then you say. The little girl took two steps forward, and there was a hint of anticipation in her still guarded eyes. She didn't have a bad impression of the woman in front of her, it was really easy for a cultivator to be unfavorable to herself, but the other party just sent some food and wanted to take her away, she could refuse to give alms but would not ignore the kindness of others, so in addition to being on guard, she allowed herself to have a little curiosity about Jin Luohua.
The development of the plot was in line with Jin Luohua's expectations, but she still pretended to hesitate for a while, and then nodded and said, "Okay." Then she walked back to the temple, turned around and closed the door again, and the little girl took two steps back, always keeping a certain distance from her.
"Did your mother ever tell you that 'men and women don't kiss?'" Jin Luohua asked softly.
"Speak...... Pass. The little girl hesitated a little when she said this, and her voice was much weaker. In this era, traditional etiquette has gradually declined, but in many families, this is still an important part of education, and there is a difference between men and women, and it is not allowed to be overly contacted, which is always to be told to children, especially girls. It's just that the little girl is helpless, some naughty boys come to provoke, and they can't be guarded against at all, and if they can't avoid her, they can only fight with them. What's more, she met the Octopus Star Beast on the beach today, and she ...... in order to save people
But she has a clear conscience. Etiquette is not always the first thing.
"Your mother must have told you that this is just etiquette, and you don't need to follow the etiquette law rigidly, right?" Jin Luohua seemed to get a glimpse of her inner thoughts, and asked again.
This time, the little girl didn't say anything, which was a tacit acquiescence. Jin Luohua then said: "But this is not just etiquette, men and women can't have too much contact, in fact, there are more important reasons, general contact doesn't matter, but there are some that will make girls have children." β
The little girl was stunned for a moment, and then involuntarily beat the small drum, and the drum beat gradually changed from slow to fast, becoming more and more intensive. She has a good basic education and knows a lot of things, but she doesn't know how to have children. She only knows that men and women can only have children when they grow up and get married, and as for how to have them, she doesn't know anything.
This kind of intimate affairs between men and women is the most missing link in ancient education, not to mention seven or eight-year-old children, even if they are seventeen, eighteen, or twenty years old, as long as they are not married and have no personnel, there are many ignorant girls. Of course, in another world of the same era, children who have entered the information society are already almost omniscient, but that is unimaginable here.
The little girl was a little empty in her heart, thinking about the contact she had done that violated the etiquette and law, and worried about whether she would have children, but she stubbornly retorted: "You lie to people! You can only have children if you get married!"
Jin Luohua smiled: "Marriage is to live together in the name of righteousness, so that it is convenient to have intimate contact with children, which is a very shameful thing, and it can't be seen by others." β
The little girl was stunned again, and Jin Luohua's words made her feel suddenly enlightened. In the past, she was also strange, others said that the mother had a brother before she got married and became pregnant, and she had it before she got married, so it was naturally not true that she could only have a baby if she got married. Jin Luohua's explanation made her refreshed, but her heart trembled, and she asked hesitantly: "Then, how can you get in touch...... Have a baby?"
"Kiss me. Jin Luohua replied without blushing and without a heartbeat.
She knew that the little girl would definitely take the bait. Just like before she got married, she never knew anything about this kind of problem, and she heard adults say that men and women will give birth to dolls when they meet, and even if they accidentally touch their hands, they will worry for many months. No matter how noble the girl in front of her is, no matter how rich her experience is, how mature her ideas are, and no matter how many things her parents instill, this place is her blind spot and weakness.
Sure enough, as soon as her voice fell, the little girl screamed "ah", and then hurriedly covered her mouth and took two steps back.
Jin Luohua's face still did not change, and made up a note: "Girl, have you ever seen a man and a woman kiss?"
The little girl shook her head. The moonlight shining through the window shone on her face, and she looked dazed.
"That's right. Because this is a very private thing, you can't do it casually, you will have children. When men and women face each other with their mouths and noses and their breaths intersect, the qi of yin and yang will take root in the girl's body and grow into a fetus. This is the 'Sun and Moon Junction'. β
It's like a planetary seed growing in your body. The little girl subconsciously made an analogy, and originally only believed in eight points, but now she believed ten points. This woman's words are so reasonable, they are like an empowerment, she finally figured out how the child was born!
So she panicked completely. She had just kissed someone during the day, although it was just to save people, she was also very shy and unhappy at the time, but there was no other way, she just wanted to save a little boy who didn't have such a bad impression, who knew that if she saved one, she would grow one in her belly. She subconsciously looked down at her lower abdomen, and was so anxious that she was about to cry, but fortunately, a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and she thought of a very important question, and immediately raised her head like grasping a life-saving straw: "I can have children when I grow up, I am only seven years old, and it is impossible to have children!"
Her voice trembled a little, and she couldn't tell whether she was excited or scared, excited because she felt that there was finally a reason not to have children, and she was afraid that this reason would not stand. Fortunately, the young woman in front of her nodded and said, "Yes, you are still young." She was overjoyed, her tense body relaxed, and she was about to spit out her breath, but she heard the other party say again: "But that seed has grown there, and when you grow up, about fourteen or fifteen years old, it will continue to develop." β
It's like...... People are born there, and they only grow up when they start practicing at the age of nine?
The little girl was dumbfounded, pursed her lips tightly, and there were tears in her eyes. Even if it's a seed, sooner or later it will sprout and grow into a child. How did this happen? Why didn't my mother tell me about this earlier? My mother is not here, my brother is not here, I am the only one left, what should I do?
By the way! Where is the child's father? I don't know his name yet, and I don't know where he lives! Mom must have kissed his father unintentionally, so she gave birth to her brother before she got married! I'm going to find him, I'm going to find him!
She felt innocent, aggrieved, worried, scared, and helpless, gritted her teeth, and ran outside the temple gate without saying a word, but was stopped by Jin Luohua stretching out her hand: "Where are you going?"
"No, you don't care!"
As soon as the little girl shook off Jin Luohua's hand, she was about to rush out of the door. Jin Luohua's figure flashed, but she stopped her again, and said with a smile: "I can't care, the person you are looking for is my son, how can I stand by and watch?"
The little girl was stunned and raised her head steadily. (To be continued.) )