snail girl

In Anning Village, Qinghe County, Yunzhou Prefecture, a loud cry of a baby cut through the silent night of the village, as if injecting a faint vitality into the Shen family, which was shrouded in repeated disasters and death.

I don't know whether this new life is lucky or unfortunate for this baby.

The building is about to collapse, the number of living people is exhausted, and every birthday in the future will be the anniversary of the deceased father's death.

"Grandpa, Yuniang was born, Yuniang was born, God is merciful, he is a boy with handles." Shen Wen's mother-in-law, Mrs. Lin, raised her voice to her daughter in the delivery room when the baby was just born. The son-in-law on the sick bed next to her shouted, Shen Wen is already terminally ill, and these days he has struggled to support his only blood, and now that his wife has given birth to Lin'er safely, most of Shen Wen's heart has gone, and he feels that he is not ashamed The ancestors and the ancestors, thinking that this child was born without a father, and there will be no one to teach him in the future, his excitement subsided again.

Time waits for him.

A moment later, Mrs. Lin hurried in from the door and brought the tightly wrapped baby up to him, and said to Shen Wen with a choked voice, "Look, my lord, this child is fat and strong in vain, and he looks like a blessed baby." Yes, you will grow up in peace."

Lin announced the good news to Shen Wen with the characteristic loud voice of the peasant family, trying to make herself appear happy, but it was too deliberate and too exaggerated and failed. She turned her head to wipe away the tears in her eyes.

In the face of death, a person can swallow tears and pretend to be happy, and can force a smile, but there is no way to show a happy look when he really cares.

What's more, the person in front of me who is so angry, with only a little red on his lips remaining on his pale face, is her daughter's only reliance in her life. How should this orphan and widow deal with himself?

Shen Wen, a young talent, is extremely gifted in poetry and calligraphy, and became the only person in Anning Village who passed the examination for a scholar in decades. If this momentum continues, his future is immeasurable. When a country gentry got married or married a rich lady, he didn't expect him to turn around and marry Yuniang of the Hu family. At that time, who didn't praise Lin's good fortune, and Hu Yuniang's brother would be courteous because he was the brother-in-law of a scholar. He three points.Perhaps it was in response to the saying that extreme joy begets sorrow, since Shen Wen was admitted as a scholar, the good luck of the Shen family seemed to have been exhausted, and accidents happened one after another at home, and Shen Wen also suffered from a serious illness.

Life and death are fate, no matter how unwilling, it is not in the slightest.

Shen Wen's body has long since collapsed, and he has persisted until now and refuses to die because he has never seen the birth of a child with the blood of his Shen family, and he does not have the face to meet his ancestors.

With the arrival of this little baby, Shen Wen's heart disease was relieved, and his anger gradually dissipated.

He had no strength to comfort the sad mother-in-law, and he raised his dry right hand with difficulty. His big hand with rough, dry and protruding joints gently brushed across the newborn's tender face, and touched the child's swaddle.The little child, because he was brought to his father's side as soon as he landed, his body has not been cleaned, and his hair is wet from the mother's womb.

Shen Wen looked at his only flesh and blood tenderly and lovingly, then widened his eyes and shouted excitedly, "God has mercy on me, let my Shen family still have a trace of blood, Yu Niang, Yu Niang, take good care of our child .” After finishing speaking, his hand dropped heavily to the bed, and he never raised it again.There was a satisfied and relieved smile on his face in the corner of his eyes.

"Uncle!" After Lin found out that Shen Wen had really left, she cried out in grief. The child in her arms seemed to have noticed the death of a loved one, and began to cry loudly.

Hu Yuniang, the wife of the Shen family, ignored her weak body after giving birth, leaning on the wall and moving from the delivery room to the door of Shen Wen's bedroom. Two lines of despairing tears flowed down her pale face.

"Master!"

Soybean-sized raindrops fell from the sky and hit the roof, wall, and ground with a crisp sound, accompanied by the cries of three women covering the Shen family's courtyard, adding another kind of sadness and misfortune to this unfortunate family.

With the help of relatives, friends and the village head and villagers, Shen Wencai was able to be buried safely.

"Mother knows that you made me lie about my sister's son as a boy in order to let my son-in-law go in peace, but the matter has come to this point, but this matter has to continue to be wrong." Lin looked haggard and lost weight. The daughter who couldn't sit still even after confinement gave a soft sigh.

There are countless fortunes, one fruit, one reward, how glorious Hu Yuniang was when she became a scholar's wife, and now she has to pay back so much suffering.

On the second day after Shen Wen's burial, Shen Wener brought people to the door to ask the Shen family's wife for the land and real estate of Shen Wen's family, but Shen Wen was a branch of the Shen family who separated out, and most of the assets were Shen Wen's mother's dowry. The ones bought by Shen Wen, or acquired by Shen Wen after he became a scholar, have absolutely nothing to do with the Shen family's ancestral property.

But the clan has great power, and Shen Wen's second uncle has long coveted Shen Wen's family property, and the orphans and widows simply cannot compete.The wife of the Shen family had no choice but to use her husband's collection of books to ask the village head to come out to uphold justice and keep her husband's property and the names of their mother and child.

"Mother, why do you think my life is so hard?" The lady of the Shen family who had just lost her husband was persecuted again, and her emotions were on the verge of collapse.

Apart from a naive child in the family, there is no one to rely on. At this time, the wife of the Shen family can't let herself fall down.

"Girl, this is fate." Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Shen were crying together, tears falling from the corners of her wrinkled eyes.Little Shen An was sleeping quietly beside her, sleeping extremely peacefully, and she didn't intend to be woken up by the cries of her mother and grandmother.

Shen An, this is the name Shen Wen picked up long before his death, whether male or female, they are all called this name.Shen Wen hoped that this child, who lost his father's protection at birth, would be safe and happy for a lifetime.

"My sister An is a small group. She lost her father before she didn't understand anything. In the future, she will pretend to be a man to take care of the family. Mom, I really can't bear it."

Mrs. Lin hurriedly covered the mouth of the lady of the Shen family, and reprimanded severely in a low voice, "Shut up, remember, from now on there will be no Sister An, only Brother An. You know this secret, God knows it , must not let others know.”

Lin also couldn't bear to let her granddaughter be raised as a boy, but also to support the family and take care of the Shen family's wife.If someone is accidentally discovered, her daughter and granddaughter will not end well.If she was lucky enough to hide it for the rest of her life, Shen An would also be lonely for the rest of her life.

It's just that if the Shen family doesn't have a male, the huge family business cannot be kept, and the survival of the mother and daughter is also a problem.The village head received Shen Wen's favor in the early years, and his grandson wanted to study and take the imperial examination. This time, he was willing to pay for Shen's mother and son because of Shen Wen's collection of books and the fact that Shen An was a boy. .

If they knew that Shen An was a daughter, and that they had concealed such a big matter, the village chief would be the first to turn his face.

Although Lin wanted to help her daughter, she was powerless.Now she still has to rely on her son to live, and her daughter-in-law is not kind and tolerant.When the son-in-law was alive before, he flattered his daughter so much for the sake of gaining fame, but now that the son-in-law is dead, I'm afraid I can't step on it myself.If she insists on taking her daughter and granddaughter home, she doesn't know how many troubles will arise on the ground.

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Under the bright sunlight, the water of the Clear Water River surged with light.The carp fairy Red Carp, the clam essence Pearl and the snail girl Zhen Luo are surrounding Grandma Shanhu at Prime Minister Gui's house, begging Grandma Shanhu to make a fortune for them.

Granny Shanhu is a coral essence who has practiced for 2000 years, and she is also the wife of Prime Minister Turtle in the clear water river.Accompanied by Prime Minister Turtle for thousands of years, Granny Shanhu has also learned some divination skills. When she is bored, she will do fortune-telling and fortune-telling for the little demons in the river.

The three of Zhen Luo are frequent visitors to Granny Shanhu's place.

Granny Shanhu took out the token of love given to her by her ghostly husband-in-law—a delicate and small light green turtle shell, with a faint layer of long-lasting aura lingering on the smooth surface of the turtle shell.Granny Shanhu held the turtle shell with both hands and shook it back and forth, chanting an ancient incantation. After a while, three copper coins with square holes from the period of the First Emperor shook out of the shell onto the stone table.

After calculating for a while, Granny Shanhu said to Zhen Luo, "Your marriage is not in the river, you need to go to the river to find it."

After hearing this, Zhen Luo was a little discouraged, thanked Granny Shanhu, and stood quietly aside, waiting for Granny Shanhu to divination for her two sisters.

"Grandma, where's ours?" Red Carp and Pearl asked in unison.

Granny Shanhu repeated the act of telling Zhenluo's fortune last time, and continued to do fortune-telling for the two of them, because the three of them asked for different things. Zhenluo asked for marriage, while Red Carp and Pearl asked about their future, and the mantra she chanted was there. The subtle differences, if you don't listen carefully, ordinary people can't hear them at all.

Zhen Luo is distracted by his own affairs, Hong Li and Pearl are eager to know the outcome of their question, and don't pay attention to these details.

"This hexagram is a supreme auspicious hexagram." After divination to the result of the question asked by the red carp, Grandma Shan Shan said, "Practice with all your heart, and devote yourself to the Tao. One day, you may not be unable to achieve your wish."

"Thank you, mother-in-law." Red Carp said happily.

The results of this divination gave her great confidence and encouragement, and made Hong Li firm up her lofty ideal of jumping over the dragon gate and becoming a real dragon.But Red Carp also understands that things are impermanent, and if she doesn't manage well, the hexagram may change.

"You are lucky enough to meet a noble person who can give you a push when you are in your infancy. What happens after that depends on your good luck." Granny Shanhu said to the old god Pearl.

Pearl is the most beautiful female monster in the clear water river. After hearing the result of her fortune-telling, she opened her big eyes and looked at Granny Shanhu with a gesture of pity.

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The author has something to say: Fix typos today and tomorrow, sort out the plot, and start updating the day after tomorrow.