Chu Li glanced at the baby's red nose from crying. His little mouth was wide open, and he was crying heartbreakingly, which was heartbreaking.
It's really pitiful.
"Chongfeng, go to the nearby villages and look for goats that have just given birth. Buy one."
"What about the mistress?"
"I'm going to Tianling Temple."
"I'll go with you." Chong Feng assigned his men to do the task, while he would follow Chu Li closely.
Now, divided into two groups.
Concubine Xin took the child back first; Chu Li took Chongfeng and continued to go to Tianling Temple.
Burn incense.
She wanted to visit Master Guiyi as well, but due to her status, she could not show up. So she put on a veil, burned some incense, worshipped the Buddha, and left in a low-key manner.
It was already evening when we returned to the bamboo courtyard.
"Ouch... don't cry, don't cry... drink milk... come on..."
Concubine Xin was holding the swaddling clothes, coaxing the child patiently and gently, while the liquid in the bowl was squeezed from a goat and was warm.
The baby cries loudly.
Chu Li walked into the room, "Empress Xin, is he not full, or what? He seems to be crying all the time?"
Xin Fei said:
"You don't know, Li Er, raising a baby is the most energy-consuming thing. You need to watch over it twelve hours a day without any slackness. If it is hungry, wet, or unhappy in some way, the baby cannot express it and can only cry."
"When I was taking care of Tian'er, it was the same. Tian'er was annoying from the moment he was born. He wouldn't let me sleep well every night. He made my hair fall out in clumps, and also..."
"Empress Xin." Chongfeng interrupted in a low voice.
Concubine Xin suddenly came back to her senses and saw Chu Li's gloomy expression, then she reacted.
She was talking too much!
"Tanuki, I..."
"It's really hard to take care of a child, but I've never experienced this before. Let me hold her for a while." Chu Li remembered that when she was still a baby, her mother had held her like this, enduring and coaxing her all night long, and only then did her mother help her grow up healthily day by day.
Concubine Xin put down the bowl, which still had some goat milk in it, and said:
"I'll go see if the hot water is ready and get him some water for a bath."
"Let Chongfeng go."
"yes."
Chong Feng, a grown man, brought a basin, fetched hot water, and prepared everything in no time.
Chu Li wouldn't do these.
The baby's hands and feet were so small, not even as big as a cat's, and she was afraid that they would be crushed if she touched them even the slightest, so she returned them to Concubine Xin.
Concubine Xin carefully opened the swaddling clothes, held the baby's butt with one hand and his head with the other, and carefully put him into the water.
"Tori, go get the blanket."
"good."
Chu Li stood up, prepared a blanket, and wrapped the child in it after washing it. However, when she turned around, she suddenly saw a dark pink peach petal birthmark on the child's lower back.
Bang!
The blanket slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.
birthmark!
This birthmark...
There was an identical spot on her lower back!
Is it a coincidence?
How could there be such a coincidence in the world?
"Li'er, what's wrong?" Concubine Xin turned her head and saw that Chu Li's face was pale, which was obviously wrong.
"you……"
Chu Li quickly hid the strange look in his eyes, "I'm fine, maybe I didn't get enough rest after traveling these days, so I feel a little dizzy."
"Then go and have a rest. Aunt Li is here to help you."
Chu Li hurriedly put the blanket into Aunt Li's hands. Before leaving, she turned around to take another look at the birthmark on the baby boy's lower back, stroked her waist gently, and left with somewhat disorderly steps.
Same location.
Same birthmark.
Also abandoned in Tianling Temple...
I ran outside the yard and looked at the dark night sky in the bamboo forest, which looked like a dormant ferocious beast with its big black mouth open.
Chu Li staggered and held on to the bamboo, with panic in his eyes.
Is it a coincidence, or... is this matter related to her?
Who is she?
Where are her biological father and mother now?
At that time, she had no terminal illness, no disability, and no disfigurement. Why did they abandon her?
who is she?
Who is that baby boy?
That night, Chu Li tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, his mind was filled with messy things, like a spider web with thousands of threads, and he couldn't make any sense of it.
I endured until dawn.
Seeing the baby boy again and watching Concubine Xin feeding him, Chu Li couldn't calm down.
Fortunately, I had just finished breakfast when a secret guard came running over:
"There are results!"
"Madam, we found a village woman in the small town at the foot of Tianling Temple. She said she had abandoned her child."
Chu Li immediately stood up: "Lead the way!"
Then go to Tianling Temple.
About half an hour later, the secret guard led the way to a poor family's house which was small, dilapidated and had leaky walls.
A thin, pale woman with a headscarf and dark skin came out timidly:
"My dear friends, what can I do for you?"
She hunched her neck and clutched her patched apron tightly with both hands, looking extremely restrained.
Chu Li gave her a quick look.
I looked into the room and saw several children lying on the dark bed.
They were dressed in rags and each one was a year younger than the other.
"Yesterday, you abandoned a baby boy?"
The woman was timid, "Yes, yes."
"Why?"
"My Lord, look at my room. I still have four hungry children. I really can't afford to feed so many."
Why give birth if you can’t afford to raise it?
Chu Li stared at her straight.
The woman tugged at her apron, looking evasive.
moment.
Chu Li spoke clearly: "Lie."
"No, I didn't..."
"You don't look weak from childbirth, and there's no smell of blood in the house. Besides, the baby boy has fair skin, but your children are pale and skinny. They are not your children at all."
The woman looked panicked:
"Yes, yes, it was born by someone else...but I threw it away...I picked it up, but I couldn't afford to raise it, so I threw it away."
Chu Li sneered, "Still talking nonsense!"
For such a poor family, they can earn some money by selling their children, so why throw them away?
What a lame excuse.
Chong Feng stepped forward and said, "Madam, please don't be upset. I am here to interrogate you."
He took a step forward, raised the long sword in his hand, and the cold scabbard fell on the woman's shoulder, frightening her so much that her legs went limp and she knelt on the ground:
"Please spare my life, my lord! Please spare my life!"
"You're still not telling the truth?"
"I, I'm telling the truth..."
Chong Feng drew his sword directly.
“I say!”
The woman screamed, "I say, I say! Someone gave me money to abandon the child, but the man was dressed in black, wearing a cloak and a veil, and he came at night. I don't know who he is!"
Now, she told everything, without hiding a single word.
"Is it a boy or a girl?"
"He's a man!"
"About age?"
"I don't know, I really don't know! Judging from the voice, maybe he's thirty or forty years old? That's all I know. Spare me, spare me!"
Chu Li frowned, thinking:
"A young man?"
As I was thinking this, I turned my head and saw a monk coming out of a candy shop at the corner of the long street, holding a big bag of candy in his hand...
Is it brown sugar?
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