Chapter 3： Cave

Chapter 3 Cave Mansion

Ying Bao died once and was reborn again, when Father Jiang first picked her up.

She was both happy and worried.

Happy to be back with my parents again and to be a carefree and pampered baby again.

I am worried that in a few years, I will be recognized by that family again, and I will fall back on the same path of my whole life.

In this era of etiquette between monarch, minister, father and son, she is a woman with no human rights. She is restricted by the etiquette rules of blood relatives, filial piety and brotherhood, and has no way to protect herself.

Even though her biological father had abandoned her and never raised her, as long as they came to ask for her, everyone would stand on the moral high ground, accuse her of blood ties, use filial piety to suppress her, and even the government offices would speak for them.

She has seen the faces of those people in her previous life, and she would never compromise even if she were to die again.

What kind of kindness is greater than God? Bullshit!

What kind of kindness does a person who is full of schemes and bent on putting her to death have to do with her?

Ying Bao closed her eyes, and her consciousness instantly entered a cave.

This is her territory, a magical place that she accidentally discovered in her previous life, a mysterious cave.

The cave is only ten feet square, with a large almond-shaped pool in the middle. The pool takes up about sixty-seven percent of the cave.

The water in the pool is clear and sweet, with a hint of blue. There is a huge round sphere in the middle of the pool, which is emitting golden light like the sun.

This is completely different from the cave in my previous life.

I remember that when I was eighteen years old, I had just escaped from the Governor's Mansion and hid around disguised as a beggar.

One day, she hid in the shrine of a dilapidated temple and shivered. The dilapidated temple was drafty and bone-chilling.

She had a fever and was a little confused. During her daze, her consciousness suddenly entered this strange cave.

At that time, there was nothing but thick ice in the cave, which made her think that she had fallen into an ice cave.

Unexpectedly, he came back to life. The ice on the wall melted away, and there was a pool of water in the cave. There was a round luminous body in the middle of the pool, which looked very extraordinary at first sight.

Yingbao came to the pond and buried the apple seeds she brought in yesterday into the soft black soil beside the pond.

These black soils are three feet wide and surround the pond. At first glance, it looks like someone has drawn black eyeliner on the pond with a brush.

Such a strange place, just like the mysterious cave in the story book.

So Yingbao wanted to verify whether the black soil also has magical functions as described in the storybook, and what is planted will grow.

If an apple tree really grows one day, then their family will have big sweet apples to eat.

After burying the seeds and watering them with water a few times, Yingbao's consciousness began to blur and he soon fell into a deep sleep.

Opening my eyes again, I found that I had arrived at the doctor's house, and the doctor was taking my mother's pulse.

 Doctor Po Zhang is in her seventies. Her gray hair is neatly pulled back and she has a silver hairpin inserted into her bun. A tassel on the head of the hairpin sways gently with her movements.

It is said that when she was young, this grandma worked as an errand in the county government office, doing a stable job. Later, when she got older, she returned to her hometown to take care of herself.

She is very good at pregnancy and childbirth, and is also proficient in some difficult and complicated diseases of women, so many people come here to seek medical treatment.

“How?” Jiang Sanlang couldn’t help but ask.

Doctor Zhang released her finger to detect the pulse, turned around and said with a smile: "Congratulations, your wife has a happy pulse. She has been feeling her pulse for about three months."

"Ah? Is it true or not? Don't tease me." Jiang Sanlang was excited and incoherent, a little unbelievable.

"Is this still false?" The doctor woman stood up with a smile, took out a receiver from the medical box, and said to Mrs. Xu: "Sister, come with me, I will listen to the fetal breathing for you."

"Hey." Mrs. Xu stood up, looked at her husband, and followed the doctor into the inner room.

After a while, the doctor came out and said happily: "Oh, Sanlang, your wife is pregnant with twins."

"Ah?" Jiang Sanlang was pleasantly surprised, "Are these...really twins?" "Yes." The doctor put the receiver into the medical box, glanced at Jiang San, and whispered: "Your wife is almost thirty, isn't she? It’s your first baby, so you need to be tighter.”

“Hmm,” Jiang Sanlang became even more nervous and stammered: “Then...why does it matter? What should I do?”

The doctor woman picked up a handkerchief and wiped her hands. Seeing Mrs. Xu sorting out her clothes and coming out of the room, she said, "Let your wife eat more meat, eggs and fine grains to take supplements. She should do light work and not be too tired. Wait for seven or eight days." After a month, you have to eat less rice and more vegetables at every meal to ensure smooth production. "

“Oh oh oh.” Jiang Sanlang responded hurriedly.

"Also, hire a midwife as early as possible when the term is almost full term. Don't delay until it's too late." Dr. Zhang said earnestly: "Twins are not as good as singles. You can't be careless."

“Hey, hey!” Jiang Sanlang nodded.

 Jiang Sanlang was still a little dizzy when he came out of Dr. Zhang's house. He held his daughter in one hand and his wife in the other. He said softly: "Let's buy two kilograms of brown sugar first, and then measure a few liters of rice to make porridge for you."

It's a pity that there is no market today, and the butcher shop in the town has closed early. Otherwise, we could still cut a piece of fat pork and take it home.

“Rice is so expensive, and I only have a few dozen dollars left at home, so I’d better not spend it carelessly.” Chun Niang said angrily, “It’s just the beginning of spring, and there are still several months before the summer harvest.”

Jiang Sanlang looked at his wife with pity and said comfortingly: "Don't worry, after our underground planting is completed, I will go to the county town and I can always find someone to make a living."

"It's not that easy." Chun Niang sighed, "It's a hundred miles away from the county seat. Where will you live then? Are you going to sleep in a ruined temple like last time?"

At the end of last year's autumn harvest, Sanlang and two fellow villagers went to the county town to look for work. However, they couldn't find any work and the three of them were almost beaten to death by a group of local ruffians.

Chen Cunzheng’s nephew was beaten the worst and is still unable to do heavy work in the fields.

Jiang Sanlang scratched his head and said, "You must buy rice, brown sugar, and the doctor told you to eat more refined and easy-to-digest foods. Well, when I get home, I will kill an old hen and make soup for you to drink."

“We only have two hens left in our family. It’s the egg-laying season right now. Where can I kill them?”

Xu gave her husband a pinch and interrupted his nagging. "If there are no hens to lay eggs, what will our little baby eat?"

“Yes, hehehe, we Yingbao have to eat custard every day, I got it wrong.” Jiang Sanlang scratched the back of his head, hehehehe.

Ying Bao blinked and was at a loss.

The family is poor, with three thatched huts and a small kitchen, and a yard surrounded by bamboo fences, just like in the previous life, with almost only four walls.

Food, there will be enough to eat.

She once dug out an urn containing grain, but there was only a shallow layer of wheat in it.

Even the most unpalatable rice grains only cost about one stone, which is barely enough for a family to survive until the summer harvest.

Those two old hens at home are probably the most valuable items at the moment.

But now I am a small one, with weak legs and weak feet, and I can't even speak. Not only can I not help my parents, I have to rely on them to take care of me.

Yingbao was worried, her little face wrinkled up in worry.

My mother is pregnant with her younger brother and needs to supplement her nutrition. How can she only eat wheat and millet?

Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind.

There is a river in the west of the village. Although the water in the river is strong, there are fish in the river.

“Dad, look forward to the fish!” She decided to remind her silly daddy.

If there is no meat, it’s okay for my mother to eat fish.

As long as you borrow a fishing net, you can always catch fish and shrimps.

(End of this chapter)