Chapter 1 The beloved daughter is born, and she is blessed with the fruit of Taoism
Dajing, Yunzhou, Feilei City.
It snowed heavily overnight, leaving the entire dilapidated city covered in silver and freezing.
The sky is gray and the cold wind is as sharp as a knife, cutting bones.
Li Che tightened his thin cotton coat tightly and held a frozen crucian carp in his hand. This was a fish that he had spent a lot of money to get in the winter.
In order to replenish the body of the pregnant wife.
Touching his stubbled beard and sighing at the white heat in the palm of his hand, Li Che braved the cold wind and stepped on the snow, walking quickly towards home along the wide streets of Feilei City.
Having traveled through this world for nineteen years, from a newborn baby to a poor man struggling to survive, Li Che gave up the fantasy of having a golden finger.
The high-rise buildings and neon lights have long become a dream, only the aftertaste is left, and they can never go back.
This world is similar to ancient times, but more dangerous. Natural and man-made disasters and evil spirits are rampant, making it difficult for people to survive.
After accepting his fate, Li Che just wanted to protect his wife and children, live peacefully, and live a good second life.
According to the arrangement of the family, he married his wife when he was eighteen years old, and the wedding ceremony was a success. Now his wife is ten months pregnant and is about to give birth.
Feilei City is very large, divided into an inner city and an outer city. The inner city is said to be where aristocratic families and officials live. The streets are wider, life is extremely luxurious, and security is tighter.
Only those with status can enter the inner city.
As for the outer city, it is where the working people live.
After walking along the long street for several miles, I turned into an alley and saw a cluster of low-rise black-tiled mud houses.
The hurried footsteps stepped on the soft snow, making a crunching sound.
"Brother Che! Oh, brother Che, you are finally back from work!"
"Your wife is about to give birth, please go back and take a look!"
"You are going to be a father!"
In the distance, some neighbors who knew Li Che hurriedly shouted after seeing him.
Li Che was shocked when he heard this.
While nervous, he quickly quickened his pace and ran towards his earthen house, with Suxue flying behind him!
The sky was already slightly dark, and Li Che came to the door of his house. The old wooden door was open, and the woman's soft cry of gritting her teeth in pain, and the midwife's urgent encouraging voice came from inside the house.
"came back?"
In the small yard outside the earthen house, on an old bench, an old scholar wearing a cotton-padded jacket and a shabby Confucian shirt sat upright, smoking a dry cigarette.
This scholar is Li Che's uncle, Li Liang.
When Li Che was eight years old, his parents fell ill and passed away. He was fostered in his uncle's home and grew up smoothly. His uncle's family also helped a lot in getting married and having children.
"Don't worry, Grandma Lei is the most skilled midwife within ten miles. Xiaoya will be fine. Mother and child must be safe," said the old scholar, holding a dry cigarette in his mouth.
Having been a man for two lifetimes, but becoming a father for the first time, Li Che was naturally nervous.
Carrying a frozen crucian carp, he walked back and forth in front of the earthen house.
This made the old scholar a little impatient, "You brat, why are you wandering around so much? You are going to be a father, you are not stable at all!"
"Can you put down the frozen fish in your hand first?"
Li Che glanced at him but didn't reply. Naturally, the fish didn't put it down, but stopped pacing.
Because suddenly a loud cry came from inside the house!
Li Che's eyes narrowed, and his heart seemed to be squeezed hard by a hand.
Li Liang, an old scholar who was smoking a dry cigarette, immediately stood up, put out his cigarette, and looked eagerly into the room.
Suddenly, there was a loud roar like rolling thunder in the dark sky!
The old scholar was frightened and started muttering.
Li Che raised his head subconsciously, and could vaguely see something appearing and disappearing like a rolling thunder dragon in the sky.
Born with a vision?
What do you think of fantasy novels?
Li Che didn't think about that at all, and hurried into the house following the midwife's shout.
There is a fire in the charcoal stove in the house, which dispels the coldness and brings some warmth.
The midwife held a red baby in her arms and looked at Li Che: "Congratulations to Mr. Li, congratulations to Mr. Li, you are a lovely daughter."
Li Che's face was filled with joy, and the hand holding the frozen crucian carp had nowhere to put it. He could only keep saying: "Thank you, thank you..."
After quickly thanking the midwife, I threw away the crucian carp belatedly.
Carefully, with trembling hands, he took the child and looked at it carefully.
As soon as it enters the eyes, there seems to be a feeling of fusion of blood. Although the skin of a newborn child is wrinkled, it is hard to tell whether it looks good or not.
But Li Che felt that this baby was the most beautiful child in the world.
Because this is his Li Che's daughter!
Just when Li Che was filled with joy and stared at the little baby non-stop.
The picture in front of the whole person suddenly appeared, as if there was an illusion, as if there was a vast empty land, the earth and rocks were broken, the rocks were pierced through the air, and an emerald-like green seedling grew vigorously, soaring upward.
In an instant, a towering tree with lush branches and leaves grew! "this……"
Li Che looked confused.
Then he saw that when the countless leaves on the towering tree trembled, they seemed to reflect light, actually forming the scene of him listening to the cry of his daughter's birth outside the earthen house.
The picture flashed by, then shrank like a whirlpool at a speed visible to the naked eye. Finally, it shrank to a corner on the branch, condensing into a crystal clear, colorful fruit.
…
[Happy to win a daughter, bound by bonds]
[The beloved daughter is born, and the Tao tree bears fruit]
[Your daughter is born safely, and you get a Taoist fruit]
…
Li Che suddenly came to his senses, and his daughter's cry of "Wow wow" was still there.
"Ms. sir, show me your daughter..."
A weak voice came from the mouth of the pale and delicate young woman on the bed. Li Che quickly and carefully held the baby and moved closer.
"Daughter-in-law, look, our baby!"
Li Che unconsciously grinned with a bright smile.
Daoguo and so on... He didn't have the time to think about it, and now he only had his wife and daughter on his mind.
His wife Zhang Ya, Li Che's other half, is also a woman who is willing to entrust her life to him in this chaotic world.
"Ms. sir, my baby's nose looks like yours, very straight." Zhang Ya looked weak, but she was also full of joy at this moment. She stretched out her slender fingers and tapped the baby's little nose.
Li Che looked at his wife with soft eyes: "Daughter-in-law, does it hurt?"
Zhang Ya pursed her pale lips, smiled and shook her head: "It doesn't hurt, I'm happy."
"Ms. sir, what is our child's name?"
Zhang Ya asked expectantly, but as if she thought of something, she looked past Li Che and subconsciously looked at the uncle and old scholar standing at the door.
Li Che glanced at the old scholar and saw that he was wrinkling his eyebrows. Uncharacteristically, he did not show off his literary talents or fight for the right to name his daughter.
Li Che knew what he was thinking.
But he didn't care. He held his wife's cold little hand and said softly: "I have already thought about it these days."
"It's extremely cold this winter. I just hope our little one can stay warm, so let's call her Li Nuanxi..."
"Warmth is like the fire of the morning sun, dispelling disasters and pain, so that you can grow up safely and happily."
Li Che said in a soft voice.
Zhang Ya smiled happily, "Nuan Xi, it sounds so good..."
Xixi in Zhang Ya's arms seemed to have heard her name, and actually stopped crying and showed a smile.
However, after a while, he started crying again.
The midwife hurriedly came over and said, "The baby must be hungry. We need to feed the baby..."
Li Che and the old scholar heard this and hurried out of the earthen house.
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In the yard, patches of goose feather snow fell from the sky.
The chill is rising and the weather is getting colder in the middle of winter.
The smile on Li Che's face never disappeared. It turned out that this was what it felt like to be a father, and he couldn't help but feel the responsibility to protect his mother and daughter.
However, the old scholar seemed a little unhappy, so he picked up the dry cigarette and started smoking it again.
Li Che smelled the smell of smoke and frowned: "Uncle, pinch it quickly, the child is here."
The old scholar sighed, put out his cigarette, and pursed his lips: "It's just a girl, why don't you take care of me? Our old Li family..."
When Li Che heard this, he couldn't help but smile: "With or without a handle... does it matter?"
"The old Li family has a throne to inherit?!"
When the old scholar heard this, the idea of favoring boys over girls was not so easy to give up, but he stopped talking and just kept mumbling in a low voice.
Li Che shook his head, but didn't say much.
He picked up the frozen crucian carp and walked to the kitchen, intending to make a bowl of hot crucian carp tofu soup for his wife.
While cooking the fish soup.
Li Che finally took some time off and planned to study the Tao Fruit that accompanied the birth of his daughter.
(End of chapter)