latelenovela Chapter 95 The Infant Spirit
Chapter 95 The Infant Spirit
Qi Bo was so angry that his eyes widened and he threw down his pipe.
Qi Dani and Qi Erni were so frightened that they huddled together. Erni, who was already calling for her mother, was so frightened that she started crying.
"Old man, what are you doing? You're scaring the child!"
Aunt Xie frowned and scolded.
Uncle Qi looked at the two girls, Qi Dani and Qi Erni, with disgust in his eyes.
She had been longing for a boy for three years, but instead had three girls. Luckily, she found out in time that the last one was a girl and made Zou Xiaoxi drink a bowl of abortion medicine, which caused the last one to be aborted.
Otherwise, wouldn't people laugh at you for having three maids in your household?
When the nitpicker led Zhao Taohua to the front of the Qi family's medicinal herb field, they saw that the Qi family had an open door to a thatched shed.
The nitpicker carefully squatted down and placed Zhao Taohua on the ground.
Because of the protection of the thatched shed, the hailstones outside had little effect on the inside, despite their loud pounding.
When Zhao Taohua entered the thatched shed, she saw Zou Xiaoxi kneeling on the ground not far away, frantically digging at something with both hands.
Qi Jincai, who was standing to the side, used all his strength to pull her back: "Xiaoxi, what are you doing? What's wrong with you?"
A moment of stunned silence flashed across Zou Xiaoxi's face, and then she began to lose control again, rushing into the small pit she had just dug and digging with her bare hands.
Even when her fingernail broke and bled profusely, she was completely unaware.
"Xiaoxi, what's wrong with you?"
Even Qi Jincai, a grown man, was unable to pull Zou Xiaoxi any further.
He felt that the air around him was much colder than before, and there was even a sinister atmosphere spreading around him.
He could faintly hear the sharp cry of a baby, a sound that could pierce one's soul and seemed to devour one.
Just as he was looking around trying to find where there were children, he suddenly saw Zhao Taohua and the snail spirit walking towards him.
He immediately asked, "Peach Blossom, did you hear a child's cry?"
Zhao Taohua nodded.
Where is he? I can't see him.
It's so cold outside, the children will freeze to death if they stay outside."
Qi Jincai was, after all, the father of two children, Da Ni and Er Ni, whom he had raised. Therefore, he could immediately tell from the voice that the other person was just a newborn baby.
Zhao Taohua pointed to the small pit that Zou Xiaoxi had dug out with her hands on the ground.
Qi Jincai followed her gaze in confusion and vaguely saw something inside, which seemed to be rotten, yet not completely rotten.
"Little Stream, what did you bury in there? Why are you digging it up now?"
Qi Jincai frowned and asked, but he never received a response from Zou Xiaoxi. All he could hear was the baby's shrill cries.
Zou Xiaoxi looked at the blurry figure of the infant spirit in front of her, tears streaming down her face. There was no fear on her face, only endless regret and love.
Zhao Taohua answered Qi Jincai's question: "There is a three-month-old baby buried here, it is your child."
Now, her spirit has returned and is standing before Sister-in-law Xiaoxi.
Qi Jincai was shocked. Their child?
But he and Xiaoxi only have two daughters. Where did this child come from? How come he didn't know?
No, Zhao Taohua just said that the baby is only three months old and not fully formed yet?
Qi Jincai looked at Zou Xiaoxi in disbelief. What was Xiaoxi hiding from him?
Just then, he heard Zou Xiaoxi mutter to herself:
"My child, I'm sorry. I didn't want to drink that abortion medicine and kill you."
"You weren't even allowed to see the world, there wasn't even a grave, just a hole was dug and you were buried..."
Zou Xiaoxi cried softly, and finally, unable to contain her emotions any longer, she burst into tears, repeatedly pounding her chest with her fists.
If she could, she would have loved to die in place of Sanni, but she had no choice.
She was afraid that if she couldn't produce an heir for the Qi family, Jincai would divorce her.
Zou Xiaoxi pounded her chest so hard it made a loud thud, as if she wanted to break her ribs.
Qi Jincai, no longer able to contain his shock, quickly grabbed Zou Xiaoxi's hands to prevent her from hurting herself further.
At this moment, the baby's shrill cries in his ears lessened considerably, and he immediately realized that Xiaoxi's series of abnormal reactions were all because of this child.
Even though he couldn't see the child, he yelled at him:
"Please, please let the stream go! I beg you!"
At this moment, the little infant spirit looked at Zou Xiaoxi, who was constantly regretting and self-harming. The resentment in her heart had weakened, and so had the pain in her heart.
Zhao Taohua stepped forward and patted her head: "Good girl, I know you didn't intend to kill, you just harbored resentment."
You've already taken your revenge, and you've seen that your mother had her own compelling reasons; she didn't want this either. Your sister will see you off.
Let go of resentment and go on your journey to the afterlife. In the next life, may you be reborn into a good family and grow up healthy. What happened in this life may not have been a bad thing for you.
Zhao Taohua released a wisp of spiritual energy from her palm, which temporarily fixed the infant spirit's blurry soul.
The infant spirit immediately felt a warmth in her soul, dispelling the cold winter and the chill in her heart.
She immediately nodded gently and withdrew the power that had been controlling Zou Xiaoxi's consciousness.
She took Zhao Taohua's hand and said, "Sister, please see me off!"
Just then, Zou Xiaoxi's eyes regained their clarity, and her eyes were filled with tears, regret, and love.
Although the infant spirit's control over her has disappeared, she can still see its presence.
She cried and reached out her hands to hug the baby spirit, but how could an ordinary person or a ghost possibly touch it?
Her hands couldn't touch anything but air!
"Sanni, I'm sorry. I was selfish. I was afraid that after giving birth to you, I wouldn't be able to stay in this family anymore."
"Your mother has already given birth to two daughters before you. If she were to give birth to you, people would laugh at her, and she might even be divorced and kicked out of the Qi family..."
Zou Xiaoxi's voice grew softer and softer as she spoke, until finally she was too ashamed to look at the infant spirit any longer.
She was the third child in her family, with two older sisters and a younger brother.
In their parents' eyes, their younger brother was the precious child who would carry on the family line, while the three sisters were like water that would eventually be spilled out.
She wore hand-me-downs from her older sisters since she was little; when they grew out, they were altered to be smaller, and when they were torn, they were patched up, while her younger brother always wore new clothes.
When the three sisters came of age, they became a great treasure for their parents.
They inquired everywhere about whose family offered the higher dowry, completely disregarding the other party's character and personality.
My sister's husband is violent, and my sister is often beaten black and blue, suffering terribly.
The eldest sister went home and cried to her parents, hoping they would help her get a divorce from her husband.
Unexpectedly, her parents only said one thing: "She was born into her brother-in-law's family, and she will die into her brother-in-law's family. The Zou family will never let a divorced woman come back; it's bad luck!"
My second sister was just of marriageable age and was as beautiful as a flower, but her parents married her off to a widower who was old enough to be her father, simply because her husband offered a large dowry.
The eldest and second sons of my second sister's husband were about the same age as my second sister. Not only did the stepsons refuse to call her "mother," they also made things difficult for her every day, cursing that the daughters she gave birth to were a waste of money. My second sister had a very difficult time in that family.
Six years have passed, and my second sister still hasn't been able to give birth to a son for her husband.
Her second sister urged her to do everything she could to give Qi Jincai a son, so that she would have someone to rely on in the future and be able to gain a foothold in her husband's family.
Fortunately, she was of average appearance, so no one was willing to offer a higher dowry, and she was lucky enough to marry into a normal family like the Qi family.
She knew that her family would never let her go back. If she wanted to have a place to stay in the world, she had to give birth to a son for the Qi family!