Chapter 14: Next time I will wait for my mother's permission before eating the sugar man
Following the fragrance, we passed through the moon gate and the winding corridor, and came to the east courtyard lit by dim candlelight, with the intertwined black tentacles holding up the cute baby's head.
Along the way, Li Zhou's nose was like a hound, twitching from time to time, for fear of missing a trace of fragrance.
Finally, she arrived at a place where the fragrance was concentrated. She raised her hand and manually closed her slightly open mouth to prevent her saliva from flowing all over the floor and looking unsightly.
Can mother make a bib for her, thought the clean-loving Li Zhou.
She was completely unaware that she had been crawling on the ground for a long time and the word "clean" had nothing to do with her.
Fortunately, her lower body is now covered with tentacles, and both the color and material are quite resistant to dirt.
Li Zhou opened his eyes wide, looking for fragrant food in the east courtyard. When his eyes swept across the stained glass window, he saw a messy shadow lying on the window frame.
Where does the shadow come from?
She looked down in confusion, only to see a sugar man made into the shape of a scholar with a bamboo stick stuck on the ground. He was wearing a square scarf on his head, a long gown, holding a lantern in his hand, his lips slightly parted, and his expression dazed, really lifelike.
She looks a bit like her father.
Li Zhou's clever mind worked and he automatically rationalized the matter of sticking the sugar man in the ground.
Her parents must have loved her and bought her these snacks.
Li Zhou, who had no idea that no one in the family liked her, happily crawled to the candy man, pulled out the candy man, and started biting it.
She forgot that her teeth had not grown in fully yet, and she could do nothing but smear the candy man with saliva.
But even so, the syrup at the corner of her mouth, which she rolled into her mouth, immediately relieved her hunger.
Her eyes lit up, and she held the sugar man and began to lick it left and right.
The sweet syrup melted into her mouth and flowed down her throat.
Feeling warm in the stomach.
Li Zhou narrowed his eyes contentedly. After eating the candy man, he was no longer hungry.
Yue Niang covered Dalang's mouth, climbed to the head of the bed quietly, and took out the golden hairpin hidden under the pillow.
Her whole body was shaking, but she held the golden hairpin tightly and pointed the sharp tip at the door.
The shadow outside the house laughed softly and pointedly. The cold wind blew in gusts. The diamond-shaped lattice of the stained glass window seemed to hide countless eyes, which were attached to the thin window paper and peeped at her and Dalang.
"Yue Niang, it's me." Li Sheng's voice sounded again, this time it was more like hers, and there were even footsteps. "Open the door, let me in."
Yue Niang covered Dalang's eyes tightly, but stared at the window without blinking.
This thing can only bark outside the house to trick her into opening the door, so it's nothing to be afraid of.
She encouraged herself and tried not to think about where the real Mr. Li was now, how he was replaced by this evil spirit, and whether he was already dead.
Damn Li Turtle, he can’t do anything right. He can be killed by ghosts even when he goes to the kitchen.
Wuuuu, leaving them and their mother behind, along with that enemy from the main courtyard, how are they going to live in the future?
Yue Niang cried and got angry, and the hairpin rubbed her palm until it bled.
Just as the evil spirit called out "Yue Niang" softly once again, the blood flowing from the window gap was seen dripping onto the table under the window, and another larger and more filthy shadow enveloped the small courtyard.
It brought with it a damp smell and cast an even darker, strange shadow in the darkness. The moonlight was completely obscured and the entire courtyard sank into a sticky quagmire.
The evil spirit that had been teasing Yue Niang suddenly let out a scream of pain and despair, like a mouse whose tail had been stepped on.
The flowing blood seemed to be licked away by an invisible tongue, and each lick caused an evil scream.
It's that child...
It's that kid!
Yue Niang trembled and talked to herself in her heart. She saw that the shadow on the window frame was also disappearing, as if it was caught by a greedy child and licked with relish.
It was like being sucked by a leech, absorbing the sweet juice, becoming drier and thinner.
All the hairs on Yue Niang's body stood up. Could such a monster really have been born from her body?
She covered her stomach in fear and felt a dull pain in her lower abdomen. She looked at this crazy scene and wished someone could save her from this suffering.
But no.
She could only sit there stiffly, watching the child eat up the evil spirit bit by bit, like watching a shadow play.
"belch."
She seemed to hear a burp, or maybe it was her illusion. Was it her turn next? Yue Niang's tears wet her clothes. She was still thinking about going on a long journey after the confinement. She wanted to see the snow on Mount Emei, the clouds in Wu Gorge, the rain in Xiaoxiang, and the waterfall on Mount Lu in "Xiao Chuang You Ji"...
She had finally given birth to the child, she was still young and she didn't want to die.
Yue Niang leaned over the head of the bed, her shoulders shaking, and she began to cry unwillingly.
"mother."
She heard a crisp child's voice, and she thought it was Dalang, sobbing, "Just let me cry for a while."
"mother."
But the child cried out again and tugged at her sleeve.
“Da Lang,” Yue Niang wiped her tears and said, “I will stand in front of you later, but to be honest, it’s useless. I don’t want to die either, wuwuwu…”
"No, it's not me." Dalang's voice was low and tense, as if he was afraid of something.
Yue Niang was stunned.
He took her hand and touched her cold cheek, and comforted her with a crisp childish voice: "Don't cry."
When Yue Niang realized the true owner of the voice, she felt numb all over.
She closed her eyes tightly, clenched the golden hairpin, and raised her head stiffly.
The daughter she gave birth to after a narrow escape from death, with an innocent face, was perched on the shrinking tentacles, looking at her with worry.
If it weren't for the fact that her ugly and deformed lower body was so noticeable, who wouldn't praise her as a sensible and obedient daughter?
Yue Niang's heart was completely broken.
Her face was as dry as a tree, and she said miserably, "If you want to eat, then eat. But Dalang is still young. If you are not in a hurry, you might as well raise him a little bit older before eating him."
This is the only thing she can do for Dalang as a mother.
Woohoo, her Emei snow, Wuxia clouds, Xiaoxiang rain, Lushan waterfall...
Woohoo, damn Li Turtle...
"Next time," Li Zhou crawled into Yue Niang's arms and said with his face up, "Next time I will wait for mother's permission before eating."
She didn't realize how abnormal it was that she could speak just a few days after being born, and she thought her mother was crying because she ate candy.
She thought for a moment and opened her mouth: "Look, Mom, I don't have cavities."
After all, she was an adult before, and she fully understands the concerns of parents. It is indeed not good for children to eat too much sweets.
"Don't be angry." Li Zhou buried his head in Yue Niang's soft arms and took a deep breath. Although his mother's body did not have the fragrance of food, it was also fragrant and soft, so comfortable and reassuring.
Yue Niang thought she would die today, but unexpectedly the child jumped into her arms.
By the way, it also calls her mother...
Did it really regard her as its biological mother?
Yue Niang let out a long sigh of relief, only to then realize that she had been holding her breath and was almost suffocating.
She looked hesitantly at the child in her arms. The tentacles under Li Zhou's body had all been retracted. Now she was wearing socks made of silk, and her whole body was white and tender. Her eyes were like grapes, black and bright, her little hands were chubby, and her nails were pink and tender. She was so cute.
Yue Niang rubbed her eyes, looked at Li Zhou's little face and thought, just looking at this face, he really looks like her child.
Li Zhou hugged his mother's arm. After eating and drinking, he felt sleepy. He nodded his head and dozed off.
Her mother's hand hesitantly rested on her back, patting it tentatively, and she unconsciously hugged him tighter.
This child...
Yue Niang frowned slightly. Could it be that she sensed that she was in danger and came to save her?
Look how tired the child is.
Yue Niang's eyes became complicated, and she patted Li Zhou's back from time to time.
She looked at the golden hairpin in her other hand, raised it, and then put it down.
This scene of loving mother and filial daughter was seen by the horrified Dalang standing nearby. He thought blankly, Dad said my sister is a monster, but she doesn't seem to be a bad person at all.
But where is dad?
Mr. Li, who was lying unconscious at the kitchen door, was trembling slightly in the cool night breeze.
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