Chapter 1 Drown Her
Nanji Kingdom, Yuncheng.
At dusk, the sky slowly sank, and in the mist as light as soft yarn, the merchant ships on the river were sailing out of the ferry.
"While no one is watching, throw that little bastard into the water!"
After a low command, the noble lady with gold and jade hairpins on her head walked quickly to the stern.
She glared at the maid, and then cast her disgusted eyes on the swaddling clothes in the maid's arms.
Perhaps the maid covered it too tightly, the little baby in the swaddling clothes whimpered and began to struggle uncomfortably.
A little foot like mutton-fat jade kicked hard, and kicked out five chubby toes.
"Second Madam, after all, it is the eldest lady's bloodline, otherwise..." The maid touched the round and cute feet, and finally couldn't bear it and her eyes turned red.
The noble lady frowned immediately.
"Bloodline? We Shen family don't recognize it! It's just a bastard born from the affair between that bastard and someone else." The woman's voice became more and more angry.
"She never said who the father of the child was until her death. I guess he must be a wild man who is not presentable. Now our whole mansion is going to follow the old man to Beijing. We can't let this bastard tarnish the reputation of the mansion."
"Throw it away quickly, drowning her is also a quick death!"
Under the urging of the master, the maid could only stretch out her arms and pretend to throw it into the river.
But after hesitating for a moment, she still paused, and took the wooden basin quietly while the noble lady was not paying attention.
She took out a blood-stained handkerchief embroidered with plums, and quickly put it into the basin along with the swaddling clothes.
"I'm sorry, young lady. I really tried my best..."
The little maid sighed, then threw the basin with the child into the river.
The evening breeze blew, and the small basin floated in the water, lonely, like a piece of duckweed without roots.
Xiao Nuobao hadn't heard any voices for a while.
When she stretched out her little head, the merchant fleet had already left her far away, and gradually became an unclear black dot in her sight.
"Burp... Don't leave, big ship!"
There was only the endless river water around her, and Xiao Nuobao was extremely scared. Her dry little mouth suddenly opened wide, and two bloody cuts were pulled out.
Xiao Nuobao waved her arms again, but soon dropped her head and gave up.
A few crystal tears began to swirl in her big grape-like eyes.
The big ship will never come back...
As expected, she will be left behind.
Xiao Nuobao licked the blood on her lips uncomfortably and sighed softly.
In order to stay in the mansion, she has always been very well behaved and never dared to cry.
Even when the servants in the mansion made fun of her and only fed her some rotten vegetable soup mixed with pig food after her mother left, Xiao Nuobao swallowed it with tears in her eyes.
Xiao Nuobao has been defecating yellow soup for more than half a month.
Now, even though she felt wronged and wanted to cry, she dared not to cry loudly, for fear that if she pushed too hard, her stomach would not be able to hold back and she would poop in the swaddle again.
"Don't make the quilt dirty... they will beat Nuobao, and they will also force Nuobao to sleep smelling stinky poop..." Nuobao hunched his shoulders and reminded himself with a trembling voice.
Faintly, the gentle words that his mother repeated before she left echoed in Nuobao's ears again.
"Live well..."
"Our Nuobao...was brought by mom and dad at Sanqing Temple. She is a lucky fairy who came to earth to experience tribulations..."
"Soon, dad will bring the most powerful team to pick up our little Nuobao..."
"My dear, remember to be obedient at grandpa's house. Just stay in the mansion and wait for the day when dad comes...by then, everything will be fine..."
Thinking of this, little Nuobao wiped his eyes sadly.
"My dear... Nuobao still hasn't waited for dad...I feel so useless." Little Nuobao bit his mouth as if he had made a mistake.
The hoarse little voice was filled with aggrieved crying.
The breeze blew gently, and the faint plum fragrance from the square handkerchief beside him lingered around little Nuobao, as if comforting this little milk ball.
Smelling the familiar scent of his mother, little Nuobao sniffled, and finally couldn't help it, sobbing with his hands covering his eyes.
"Wuwu cool hug~"
"Nuobao wants a cool hug~"
At this time, not far away, a shabby donkey cart passed through the path outside the city and drove towards the direction of Daliushan Village.
The woman behind the donkey cart was about thirty-six or seven years old, wearing a green coarse cloth dress and two auspicious cloud-shaped wooden hairpins on her head.
She was stroking a few pieces of silver in her pocket, but her hand movements suddenly stopped.
"Big brother, stop quickly, why does mother hear a child crying, and it seems to be calling mother!"
Feng stretched out her hand and patted her son, then jumped off the ground, scaring Jiang Fengnian who was catching up.
Jiang Fengnian quickly reined in the reins, turned around and said, "Mom, be careful of falling."
Feng's movements were swift and agile. She jumped to the ground easily, and stabilized the donkey cart with one hand. Ignoring Ying's son's words, she looked for the sound.
It's definitely a child's cry!
Seeing this, Jiang Fengnian also hurriedly followed Feng.
It was getting late, and the Jiang family and their son had just sold ten bags of grain in the city and were preparing to return to the village.
The sound of the river was so loud that the boss, Jiang Fengnian, did not hear the cry clearly. He was only worried that the world was not peaceful at the moment and if he went back too late, thieves would rob him of his money from selling grain.
After all, the whole family will live on this little money for the second half of the year.
"Mom, let's go back quickly. There has been famine for three years. Now there are troubles as soon as it gets dark. The night before yesterday, our village chief was on the road and someone robbed him of a bag of soybeans." Jiang Fengnian said.
"Don't worry about it. Nothing matters more than the child." Feng heard the crying sound getting closer and her steps quickened.
She went up along the river bank.
"The crying sound is just ahead. Mom, it sounds like a little girl. It's so late now. If the child is outside alone, be careful that she will be taken away by wild dogs." Feng's tone was anxious.
Jiang Fengnian couldn't help laughing.
"Mom, I think you dream of having another daughter. You must have heard it wrong. How can there be a crying girl in this wasteland outside the city? Why don't I have one..." Jiang Fengnian was about to say that he didn't hear it.
But the next moment, he saw a wooden basin floating on the river not far away.
And there was a baby in the basin, and it was about to drift to the fast-flowing water!
"Mom, there is really a child over there!"
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