The midwife ran out of the Chen family in a panic and returned home to tell her husband, "This is terrible. The second daughter-in-law of the Chen family gave birth to a monster. You don't know this. When the child was born, there were scales on its back. It felt slippery in my hands. I was so scared that I didn't dare to look at it."
"Really?" Wu Si was curious: "Isn't that child the one conceived by Chen Erjia and the monster?"
Aunt Wu patted her chest and said, "Who knows? You don't know that Chen Er's face turned green."
Wu Si asked: "What about the child? How will his family deal with him?"
Monsters are no longer common nowadays. I wonder how Chen Er’s family got involved with a monster
Wu Si stroked his beard and daydreamed.
"What else can I do? Chen Er drowned her in the basin with his own hands. Alas, I didn't even get to eat the eggs and came back directly." Aunt Wu felt uncomfortable when she thought of that scene.
The image of the little baby struggling in the water is still vivid in my mind. The Chen family is so cruel.
A few days later, Jiang Sanlang from Jiangjia Village picked up a baby. It was said that Jiang Sanlang rescued the baby from the mouth of a small monster.
Because the baby was naked, Jiang Sanlang took it home in his arms and named it Yingbao.
Jiang Sanlang's wife had not been pregnant for several years. She was very happy to see her husband bring home a baby with an umbilical cord still intact. From then on, she raised the baby as her own.
Jiangjia Village is located on the edge of the Monster Forest, and all the villagers make a living by collecting spiritual herbs.
However, the village was often harassed by some powerful wild beasts. They were overwhelmed by the trouble but could not move away.
But ever since Jiang Sanlang picked up a baby girl, the village has been very peaceful recently, and those large wild beasts have never entered the village again, which makes the villagers surprised and happy.
Jiang Sanlang also discovered that his little girl had extraordinary abilities. For example, when his wife was carrying her on her back to pick vegetables in the vegetable field, they encountered a very ferocious blue wolf. His wife was so scared that she almost dropped the sickle in her hand.
Just as the green wolf was approaching step by step, the little girl suddenly started crying. The green wolf was stunned, then turned around and ran away.
Xu Chunniang was still in shock and told her husband about it when she got home.
Jiang Sanlang held his daughter and looked at her carefully, and found that apart from the scales on her back, there was nothing unusual about her.
So Jiang Sanlang thought that the child was born between a human and a demon.
He told his wife his guess, and she was pleasantly surprised: "That's great, we don't have to worry about anyone looking for the child anymore."
After Jiang Sanlang noticed something was wrong with his child, he scattered the child's urine in a circle around his own fields. From then on, his fields were never damaged by wild beasts again.
In August of this year, the beast tide came again. Everyone in the village fled the village. When the village chief saw that the three Jiang brothers had not left, he came over to ask.
"Da Lang, Er Lang, San Lang, if you want to pick up the bargain, you have to be alive to do it. Hurry up and evacuate with us. It will be too late if you are late." The clan leader advised kindly.
Jiang Dalang turned his gaze to his third brother, "Sanlang, what do you say?"
Jiang Sanlang looked at the girl in his arms and said softly, "Bao'er, how about you go with your mother first, and I'll go later, okay?"
Even though his little girl is only six months old, she can understand what people say and can express herself through crying and laughing.
Sure enough, Yingbao opened her mouth and burst into tears, her little hands tightly grasping Jiang Sanlang's collar.
Seeing this, Jiang Erlang quickly said, "Yingbao, why don't you stay with your father and uncles?"
Yingbao immediately burst into laughter, and waved her little hands to pat her father's chest.
It seemed like she was trying to comfort her father.
The village chief was stunned and had to say, "Then you should do the best you can and hide in the cellar with the children."
Every year's beast tide is very dangerous, but there are also opportunities, such as being able to pick up low-level wild beasts that the monks don't want after killing them.
If you are lucky, you may even pick up one or two spiritual beasts, and sell them in the city for a lot of silver.
As long as you save up 20,000 gold, which is 200 spirit stones, you can exchange it for a city hukou. Although it is for one person, you can also let your children live in the city, go to school in the city, and learn how to cultivate.
But no one in their Jiangjia Village had saved up 20,000 gold in the past fifty years, which meant that no one could enter the city to practice immortal arts.
Those who had gone to the city before also moved to the city with their families and never came back, so people like us naturally couldn't benefit from it.
"We will be careful, don't worry, clan leader." Jiang Sanlang said, "I'll leave my parents and nephews and nieces in your care."
Originally, he wanted to stay behind and let his wife and daughter follow his elder and younger sisters-in-law and his parents to evacuate the city, but the little girl cried and kept holding on to him. Her little hands were stronger than pliers and she almost tore his clothes.
After all, I had my own selfish motives, so I kept my daughter.
He had accumulated a lot of baby urine some time ago, and was ready to give it a try during the beast tide. If successful, his family would be able to save enough money to buy a household registration.
When the time comes, I will let my wife and daughter live in the city, so they don’t have to stay here and live in fear.
Seeing that the Jiang family was stubborn, the clan leader shook his head and turned away.
After watching the clan leader leave, the Jiang brothers immediately put things in order at home. They hid the grain and water hyacinths in the cellar, moved some firewood in, and put all the quilts and other things in the cellar.
This tide of beasts lasted for more than two months. They only returned to the forest one after another when the first snow of winter fell. Therefore, food, water and things to keep warm were essential.
But staying in the cellar also has its disadvantages. Many monsters have noses more sensitive than dogs. They can smell the breath of living people. Even if they have to dig up the ground, they will catch humans and eat them. This is why the village chief and his men dare not stay.
On the third day of August, Xu Chunniang made a lot of wheat buns before the monster tide arrived. She also pulled out all the vegetables from her family's vegetable garden and stored them in the cellar. She also cut a jar of pickled vegetables and put them together with the buns.
In the past few days, Jiang Sanlang moved a lot of wood into the cellar and covered the cellar entrance tightly, leaving only a small entrance and exit.
Even so, Chunniang was very nervous. She stood at the gate of the yard holding her daughter and looking out.
Some small wild animals could be vaguely seen running out of the forest, but they would always bypass the Jiang family and run away into the distance.
On August 10th, huge beasts appeared one after another, and the ground shook as they ran past.
Chunniang hid in the cellar with her daughter and husband, her heart beating so fast that it almost jumped out of her throat.
It was also the first time that she felt the power of the beast tide. She whispered to her husband, "Sanlang, what if a wild beast comes to dig the cellar?"
Jiang Sanlang listened attentively to the noise outside and whispered to comfort him, "It's okay. None of the beasts have entered our territory. It seems that my daughter's urine can control them."
He glanced at his little girl and saw that her eyes were narrowed with laughter. He sighed, patted her head and said, "Dad is sorry for you. He put Baoer in danger."
Yingbao babbled something and wiped her saliva onto her father's sleeve.
On the fifteenth day of August, the air outside was filled with the howling of various wild beasts, which frightened Chun Niang so much that her face turned pale.
Jiang San ate a steamed bun with pickles and patted his wife's shoulder to comfort her silently.
At this time, the wild beasts outside smelled a strange smell around the Jiang family, howled a few times, took a few steps back, and slowly walked around.
Many young animals were unaware of the truth, and when they occasionally set foot into the Jiang family's fields, they were driven back by the adult animals.
Jiang Dalang lifted a corner of the cellar and peeked at this scene, and he also found it magical.
Is my little niece really the child of some great demon? Why are all the great beasts afraid of even her urine
His originally uneasy heart suddenly calmed down and he became bolder. He called his second brother who lived in the same cellar with him and told him what he had seen.
Jiang Erlang also found it magical, and immediately crawled along the corridor to his third brother and told him what his eldest brother had seen.
When Jiang Sanlang heard this, he immediately perked up and handed two diapers to his eldest and second brothers: "Let's go out for a walk, maybe we can pick up some magical herbs."
There are many spiritual beasts from the depths of the forest, such as flying kangaroos, which have some spiritual fruits and medicines hidden in their pouches. If you can catch them, you will become rich.
But these spirit beasts are very cunning and good at camouflage. Some like to hide under the belly of giant beasts.
Jiang Erlang took his niece's diaper and tucked it into his belt without any disgust.
So Jiang Sanlang asked his eldest brother to stay in the cellar, and he went out with his second brother.
Of course, they were fully prepared. They were covered with a large furry dog skin, had dog skin muffs on their limbs, and wore dog head hats on their heads.
After leaving the yard, Jiang Erlang saw a large number of ferocious beasts not far away, and his legs were shaking.
But the arrow had been on the string and had to be shot, so the two brothers gritted their teeth and walked towards the giant beast.
The giant beast sniffed its nose, took a few steps back as they approached, and looked at the two strange creatures in confusion.
Seeing that they did not attack, Jiang Sanlang felt relieved and started looking for the flying squirrel.
But after searching all the giant beasts around, they found nothing.
Jiang Sanlang was a little frustrated and had to go back.
They didn't dare to go too far away from home because Chunniang and Yingbao were still in the cellar.
After a few more days, they still didn't find anything useful, and they didn't dare to hunt the monsters, so they could only hide in the cellar and wait for an opportunity.
Before long, there will be immortal cultivators coming to hunt monsters, and it won’t be too late to go out and pick up some bargains then.
By September, the wild beasts became more and more frenzied and destroyed all the thatched huts in the village. Only the Jiang family's huts were not approached by any beasts. However, some giant beasts began to tentatively come over here.
When Jiang Sanlang saw this, his heart sank suddenly.
Did they realize something
Thinking of his wife and daughter, he suddenly felt extremely regretful.
He should not have been so arrogant. If his whole family was killed because of his greed, he would not be able to atone for his sins even if he went to the eighteen levels of hell.
Looking at Yingbao again, she was listening to something with her ears perked up. Suddenly, she quickly crawled towards Jiang Sanlang, clinging to him and screaming.
Jiang Sanlang picked up his daughter and asked worriedly, "What does Baoer want to do?"
Yingbao blinked and pointed her little hand toward the entrance to the cellar above: "Ah!"
Jiang Sanlang looked toward the entrance to the cellar and asked, "Does Baoer want to go out?"
Yingbao nodded.
Jiang Sanlang looked at his daughter for a few breaths, sighed, tied his daughter around his chest with a cloth belt, and climbed up the ladder.
Chunniang was anxious and asked, "Where are you taking Baoer?"
Before Jiang Sanlang could say anything, Yingbao waved to A Niang and turned to look towards the cave entrance.
"Chun Niang, I'll take Bao'er upstairs to take a look, you just stay down and wait." Jiang Sanlang gave her instructions and climbed up the ladder out of the cellar.
Picking up a bundle of firewood to cover the entrance of the cellar, Jiang Sanlang walked out of the fenced yard and saw that the wild beast had already stepped into his vegetable garden and was having fun, deliberately trampling the fence into pieces.
Suddenly, Yingbao yelled in that direction, her voice was so sharp that it scared Jiang Sanlang.
The beast that was stepping on the fence was also stunned, and quickly raised one of its front hoofs, seeming a little at a loss.
Yingbao yelled over there again.
The wild beasts around were stunned, then suddenly turned around and ran away.
Jiang Sanlang was stunned.
Because he saw a small animal as big as a hen falling from the belly of a giant animal.
His eyes widened immediately and he ran over and caught the little animal in his hands.
"Flying Squirrel! Flying Squirrel!"
Jiang Sanlang was so surprised that he wanted to scream.
He pulled out a prepared animal tendon rope from his waist, tied the little animal's feet, and carried it back to the cellar.
Under the light of the candle, Jiang Sanlang used tweezers to take out the magical herbs from the little flying squirrel's bag one by one.
The little flying squirrel's limbs and wings were tied up, and its belly was exposed. It screamed in anger when it saw its stored food being stolen by this hateful human.
Yingbao was held in Chunniang's arms, and she laughed out loud at the little flying squirrel's anxious look.
The little flying squirrel glanced at Yingbao and suddenly stopped calling, looking quite aggrieved.
Yingbao put her fingers in her mouth and laughed so hard that her saliva was streaming down her face.
In the end, Jiang Sanlang took out a total of five spiritual medicines and two cherry-sized spiritual fruits from the little flying squirrel bag.
He gave the two spiritual fruits to his wife Chunniang, took out the jade box borrowed from the clan leader's house, and put the five spiritual herbs in it for storage.
Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang looked through a torn copy of the Herbal Compendium to check the names of the spiritual herbs and discovered that two of them were of mid-level quality.
The three brothers were overjoyed. Jiang Dalang laughed and said, "We've made a fortune this time. Just these two mid-level spiritual herbs can be sold for two thousand gold."
Common people are not like those immortal cultivators. Their currency is mostly copper coins, gold and silver. It is a great fortune to get two thousand gold at one time. If they live in the countryside, they can have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.
But I still can’t move to the city, not only because people without city household registration are not allowed to buy or rent a house, but also because everything in the city costs money.
It costs money to buy vegetables, it costs money to drink water, and even to cook a meal you have to spend money to buy firewood.
Having two thousand gold is actually nothing in the city. If you really calculate it, it is only enough for a family's expenses in a year.
Jiang Sanlang picked up the little flying squirrel and said with a smile, "This little beast can also be sold for a thousand gold."
The little flying squirrel was disheartened and lay still, allowing humans to manipulate it.
Yingbao stretched out her little hands and babbled.
Jiang Erlang smiled and said, "Sanlang, Yingbao likes it very much, so let her play with it."
Jiang Sanlang smiled and touched his daughter's little head, then put the little flying squirrel in front of her.
Yingbao broke free from A'niang's arms and threw herself on the little flying squirrel, her fingers accidentally reaching the little flying squirrel's mouth.
The little flying squirrel bit down angrily, making Yingbao's little finger bleed.
"Oh! Bao'er's hand was bitten." Chunniang quickly picked up her daughter and scolded her husband: "This thing is a beast after all, how could you hand it to Bao'er."
Jiang Sanlang picked up the little flying squirrel, a little annoyed, and raised his hand to slap it.
If you dare to bite his daughter, he will beat you to death.