Oh, so the hairy monster has a name, Mingyue. It sounds like a girl's name, but his voice is clearly that of a boy.
The hairy monster walked up to the old woman and gently tucked the small white flower he had just picked behind her ear. "Grandma, this flower smells so good. It's your favorite flower."
“Mingyue, my dear grandson,” the woman said affectionately, pulling the long-haired monster’s hand and making him sit beside her. “I am Fang Yuniang, this is my grandson Zhao Mingyue, that is my son Zhao Shui, and this is my daughter-in-law Zhao Di.”
Zhao Shui was that refined gentleman. As Fang Yuniang spoke, she gently brushed aside her grandson's long hair to reveal his face. Fang Yuniang was beautiful when she was young, and her son and daughter-in-law were also outstanding in appearance, so her grandson was naturally very handsome.
I just don't know why he has such long hair. Has he never cut it since he was born?
Seeing that Zhu Qiuyu and the other two were still standing, Fang Yuniang gestured, "Please sit down, I'll tell you a story."
Zhu Qiuyu and the other two understood that Fang Yuniang was going to tell them how she entered the swamp, why she didn't die after committing suicide, how she gave birth to her child, how she later married a daughter-in-law, and how she had a grandson.
The preceding content was what they had heard from the village chief of Muchai Village. The couple had been driven to the brink by their enemies and fled to Muchai Village, where they settled down. Later, their enemies chased them to Muchai Village, killed her husband, and took his body with them.
"I don't know what that damned bastard did to Sisheng's body. I'm useless; I haven't been able to go out and avenge him all these years." Zhao Sisheng was Fang Yuniang's husband.
"Back then, I went into the swamp intending to die. When my whole body was submerged and I was about to suffocate, my body suddenly swayed, and the ground beneath me began to shake. I was poisoned by miasma and passed out. I don't know how long it took before I woke up and found myself on this side of the swamp. Do you know how I got here?"
Zhu Qiuyu thought of that enormous creature and tentatively asked, "There are ferocious beasts in the swamp. We encountered one on our way here and even fought it. Did that beast carry you here?"
Fang Yuniang smiled and nodded. "That's Da Niu. It's very gentle and kind, not fierce at all. When I tried to commit suicide, I stepped into the swamp and accidentally ended up on Da Niu's back. It's very intelligent; it seemed to know I was trying to die, and it actually carried me to the other side of the swamp. When I woke up, it hadn't left."
Back then, it wasn't as big as it is now; it was only the size of a 200-pound fat pig. At that time, I was determined to die, so I wasn't afraid when I saw such a big beast. I even thought that if it wanted to eat me, I would just let it. But it didn't eat me. Seeing that I was lying on the ground without moving, it was afraid that I would die, so it caught some small snakes and frogs from the swamp and gave them to me to eat.
Of course, I didn't dare eat those things. I lay on the ground for a long time, and then I felt the baby moving inside me. That's when I went into labor.
At this point, Fang Yu Niang looked deeply at Zhao Shui, her eyes filled with deep guilt. "Logically, the baby shouldn't have been born for another month. But because I was traumatized and went to the swamp to commit suicide, I caught a cold and inhaled some miasma, which upset the fetus, causing premature birth."
When the baby was born, his little face was purple, and he couldn't even cry. For some reason, seeing him like that, I suddenly felt a surge of strength. Even in this situation, I had survived, and my child was born. I had to live. Why should my enemy be alive and well, while my child and I had to die? I couldn't accept it!
So Fang Yuniang bit off the umbilical cord with her teeth and performed emergency treatment on the child. She stopped only after the child cried out and his complexion improved.
Fortunately, it was the hottest time of the year, and the child didn't freeze to death despite having no clothes. She took off her outer garment, leaving only her inner garment, and carried the child into the forest.
The forest was filled with the howls of wolves and the roars of tigers, so she dared not venture deeper. She only searched for water on the outskirts. Fortunately, there were many streams in the mountains, and she soon found one. After washing her mud-covered outer garment, she hung it on a tree branch to dry.
"I was extremely hungry at the time, so I looked for food in the grass by the stream. My father used to be a doctor in the prefectural city, and he was quite skilled in medicine. I was the only daughter in the family, so I learned medicine from my father and became familiar with many herbs. I could distinguish which mushrooms were edible and which herbs could strengthen the body."
I found some wood ear mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms, and gathered some herbs to dispel wind, cold, and miasma. I have food, but it can't be eaten raw. I, as an adult, can tolerate raw food, but my baby was just born and inhaled miasma in the womb; he can't eat anything even slightly unpleasant.
But I didn't have a tinderbox to start a fire, so I thought of making fire by friction. I found some dry leaves and branches, put them in the sun, and frantically rubbed a thin stick between my hands to generate heat. I had just given birth and had no energy.
It took a lot of effort to get the fire going, and it was only because of the strong sun that it was able to burn. If it had been winter, we probably would have frozen to death. How could my child and I have survived then?
With fire but no pot, she could only roast food. After eating, she recovered somewhat. Because she had a child with her, she dared not go far and lingered by the stream, picking herbs and mushrooms nearby to eat. Sometimes she would go into the stream to catch small fish and loaches. At night, she would make the fire very strong to scare away wild animals so that she could close her eyes and sleep for a while.
It was her strong willpower and will to live that sustained her. She wanted to die as much as she wanted to live after giving birth. Of course, it was also because she knew medicine and was able to collect herbs that were beneficial to her body so that she could gradually recover.
She stayed by the stream for about half a month until her strength returned and she no longer felt weak in the legs when walking. She returned to the swamp and remembered the big creature that had brought her there. Knowing that it was it that had saved her and her baby, she was very grateful and wanted to thank it.
However, she stood by the swamp for a long time without seeing the big guy reappear, and was a little disappointed. She turned around with her child in her arms to leave when she suddenly heard a loud crash behind her. She turned around abruptly.
It was that big guy coming. It leaped into the air, stirring up the mud in the swamp and sending it flying everywhere. Some of it even landed on Fang Yuniang and her child. Fang Yuniang was wearing an inner garment, and she used her outer garment to wrap the child after it dried.
"It was you who came. Thank you for saving me that day. I gave birth to the child, a son. I will raise him to adulthood and take him back to avenge her..." She was too lonely. For half a month by the stream, she dared not speak, for fear of attracting the wild beasts in the forest.
Because the child was premature and had health problems, he rarely cried, and when he did cry, his voice was very weak. Fang Yu's mother had been holding back her worries for half a month, but now that she had found someone to confide in, she poured out all the grievances in her heart.
"The forest is too dangerous, I dare not go in. I can only live on the edge of the swamp. I'm very scared at night alone. Could you stay here with me? You just need to stay by my side, you don't need to do anything. It's fate that we met, right? You even saved my and my child's lives..."
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