Chapter 30: Yin and Yang Mixed Up, Baby Crying
Chapter 30: Yin and Yang Mixed Up, Baby Crying
The baby tower is also called the bone tower or the child's return place. It is essentially a small house used to deal with dead babies.
Initially, it was built by some kind-hearted people who expressed their sympathy for the young souls who were abandoned by their parents and left dead in the wilderness.
But over time, these buildings became huge slaughterhouses.
Countless disabled, sick, and some young souls who were sent here simply because they were sent to the wrong families are lingering in this place that was originally intended to shelter poor souls.
It should be noted that tower-shaped buildings were originally religious buildings. For the Chu State, where witchcraft and ghost culture was prevalent, tower-shaped buildings with traces of belief in gods and Buddhas were not welcomed.
At least during the period when Taoist Fuguang was still traveling outside, he had not heard any rumors that this type of building was becoming popular in Chu.
Even Chu Tai's own understanding of the Infant Tower came from the miscellaneous essays and anecdotes collected by the Jinhua Sect.
Chu Tai could roughly guess why this type of building appeared in the State of Chu, but he didn't like it and was powerless to do anything about it. After making sure that there were no living creatures in the tower, he could only turn around and plan to bypass the villages and towns ahead.
"Please wait a moment! Sir, please wait a moment!"
Looking back, Chu Tai saw a man in his early twenties running towards him holding a baby.
In Chu Tai's perception, the thing in the man's arms still had a faint vitality. He thought about the baby tower next to him and his face darkened.
Chu Tai, who was mindful of his role as a middle-aged side door sorcerer, suppressed his displeasure and swung the whisk in his hand, bringing up a few rays of light to stop the man who wanted to approach. He also protected the child in his arms for a while, stretched out his hand, pinched his fingers, and asked, "Young man, what can I do for you?"
The young man was a little frightened by Chu Tai's move. He knelt on the ground with a plop and begged Chu Tai.
"Sir, please be kind and pray for my poor child so that she won't come to my house again. This is the deposit. If you think it's not enough, I can prepare another fifty taels of silver."
The man had a sad look on his face. He took out a few pieces of silver from his arms and held them up high along with the swaddling clothes in his hand. Inside the swaddling clothes was a baby with a slightly blue face.
Looking at the child's wrinkled skin and the weak but residual innate energy in his body, it is obvious that he was born less than ten days ago.
Chu Tai stretched out his hand, touched the child's heart, and gently injected warm magic power into it.
'A baby boy?'
The change in the breath of the magic power fed back made Chu Tai feel a little surprised. From what the man said before, he thought the child was a baby girl.
After all, the harsh external environment in the southern part of Chu State and the fighting between ethnic groups made many villages here hope to have another male in the family.
This also resulted in many newborn babies, with their eyes still blurry, being thrown into rivers, ponds, pressed into basins of water, covered in quilts, and even into boiling water, places where grains are recycled, and even under roads.
The saddest thing is that many of the people who do these things are the babies' biological parents. They don't mind killing their own children in the most vicious ways just to make them afraid to come back to their homes when they are reincarnated.
Therefore, when Chu Tai heard the young man begging Chu Tai to tell the child not to come to his house again, his first reaction was that the child was a baby girl.
He looked at the young man again and asked his doubts. Only then did he know that the young man had been married five years ago and had four children. The first three were boys. In other families, this would have been a happy thing, but his family was very strange. None of the children could survive past a full month.
"This time, I finally had a baby girl. I thought she would have a better life than her brothers, but...she didn't even live for ten days! What a sin I have committed!"
The young man couldn't help crying when he said this, but Chu Tai was surprised and asked, "A baby girl?" Then he took the swaddling clothes and opened a corner. The scene inside made him stunned for a moment. Then Chu Tai reacted, looked at the man and asked, "Did your wife take any medicine during her pregnancy?"
"Sir, what's the problem?"
The young man was quite smart. He was stunned for a moment, then looked at Chu Tai and said with a red face, "You mean someone is plotting against my family! They are deliberately trying to harm my wife when she was pregnant!"
After hearing this, Chu Tai thought for a moment and responded, "First of all, your child is not dead yet. Secondly, he is a boy. It is just because your wife absorbed a lot of Yin drugs during the pregnancy, which caused the yin and yang of the child to be disordered. The Yang is restrained and the Yin is exposed, so he looks like a girl."
As he spoke, Chu Tai opened a corner of the swaddling clothes in front of the young man, and at the same time stretched out his finger and touched the child's heart.
The Nanyan Cave's Fu Xiyao Zhenqi was injected into it. Under the influence of the two properties of "life and purity", the blue color on the child's face gradually faded, and he let out bursts of faint cries.
At the same time, subtle changes occurred in the body under the swaddling clothes, and the young man's face turned blue and red.
He clenched his teeth and clenched his fists, with veins bulging on the surface of his arms.
Chu Tai, who saw that he was getting too excited at the moment, said in a cold voice: "Are you going to save this child or not? I need to make it clear to you in advance. His yin and yang were mixed up in his mother's womb. Even if he is well taken care of in the future, he will be weaker than an average man when he grows up, and it will be difficult for him to have children."
Chu Tai actually said this in a positive way. No child whose yin and yang were mixed up had a good ending.
The innate yin and yang attributes are disturbed by the acquired yin and yang during the gestation process, which destroys the innate purity and disrupts the acquired concreteness.
Most of these children will lose their fertility, and as they grow older, without postnatal conditioning, the conflict between internal and external yin and yang will become more and more serious.
Ultimately, these children's bodies and personalities will be distorted to a certain extent.
Even if this baby in the cradle was slightly remedied by Chu Taiyi's Nanyan Cave Fu Xiyao True Qi, the True Qi was only acquired yin and yang in nature and it was difficult to make up for the innate deficiency. At most, it could make the baby healthier than others of the same kind and restore some of his fertility.
If the father is unable to take on the responsibility of later education and conditioning for the child, the child's future may be worse than death.
"Save! Why don't you save my child!"
The young man kowtowed to Chu Tai repeatedly: "Please, great immortal, save him!"
"I can save him, but this is not just your problem. I'll go back with you and ask your wife or your parents. Let's find out why this child's yin and yang were mixed up."
Upon hearing this, the young man hurriedly stood up and walked into the village with Chu Tai.
Not long after they walked, they met an old man who was enjoying the shade under a big tree. When he saw the young man, he raised his hand to say hello, but when he saw Chu Tai behind the young man and the baby in Chu Tai's arms, he was stunned for a moment.
The young man, who didn't care, hurriedly took Chu Tai back to his home. He first ran to the bedroom, paused halfway, turned around and asked Chu Tai to wait for a moment. After calling his parents out, he took the two old people and Chu Tai into the bedroom to meet his wife lying on the bed.
ps: There are slight modifications in the previous article in the part describing the fate with young people. Interested book friends can go and take a look at it again.
(End of this chapter)