Two or three things about becoming Ye Wang's mother

Thinking about it now, where did I get the confidence that I and my baby, who were about to freeze to death, could survive the freezing weather?

After realizing that this is unsolvable, I was a little discouraged for a while.

The baby in my arms is still crying, he is very hungry now, and I don't know where to get him something to eat.

Wait, is it him?

I wasn't sure, so I unwrapped it a little and looked, and I was sure it was him.

The snow finally stopped in the middle of the night.I was walking aimlessly in the snow with my child in my arms. The snow was thick up to my calves. Only the faint moonlight illuminated the unknown road ahead for me.

Growing up in the north in the south, I have never seen such thick snow.Although it snows in the south in winter, the snow is thin and wet, and it melts when it hits the ground. It is rare to have snow accumulation. It may happen once in two or three winters, and usually it will melt almost in two or three days. .

Walking in the snow really tested my patience.Fortunately, I am a person who has nothing but patience.Otherwise, I wouldn't procrastinate and work hard until the end of the college entrance examination when my grades were not satisfactory.

In any case, the belief in wanting to live has been hovering in my mind today.If it's just me alone, I'll die if I die.But now I'm holding a baby who's desperately trying to live, and his cries make me feel like there's something redeeming about this strange world.

Both of us are homeless lonely people who deserve company and try to survive in this world.If the luck is really bad and we cannot see the morning sun tomorrow, then we can only accept our fate. It can only be said that our luck is not good.

But we also worked hard...

Not all hard work pays off, and I know this truth well.Even if you feel uncomfortable in your heart, there is nothing you can do about it...

Please, it would be nice to have a shelter from the wind, even if it leaks, and it would be better to have a pot of red-hot coals.Ah, isn't this too extravagant?Then let’s burn the charcoal fire until there is only white ashes left. After all, there is still warmth, isn’t it?It would be great if there was a bowl of rice soup, I didn't look forward to breast milk at all.Rice soup is enough, is this something impossible to get...

Thinking of these messy things, my consciousness gradually blurred, and the crying of the baby in my arms seemed to be gradually weakening.

Looks like we're really out of luck...

Is it really unrealistic to want to live hard from the beginning?

After the passion fades, everything goes back to the way it was, or even worse...

……

……

The blood in my body was flowing faster, my brain gradually became clear, and when consciousness returned, I opened my eyes.Dead people can't feel the temperature, so I'm still alive.

Getting out of the bed, I looked at the room with bare feet,

The pot of glowing coals in the corner is lovely, and the window is a little bit open to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.The whole room is full of soft breath.

Only then did I realize that the smelly and torn clothes I had picked up from the dead had been replaced by soft cotton clothes, clean and exuding the breath of sunshine.I folded my arms and took a deep breath.Is this the taste of the afterlife...

At this time, the door of the room was opened, and a woman in a bamboo hat walked in with a child in her arms.

Wait, her arms are...feathered.

I stared wide-eyed at everything in front of me.She seemed to have noticed my gaze, and then comforted me and said: "Although I am a young bird, I will not snatch your child."

Girl caught a bird?

what is that?

I, who have very little knowledge about Japanese youkai, fell into a daze.

She didn't explain what Gu Huo Niao was. Seeing that my body had recovered, she gave the child to me.

"I've fed him rice soup and he's sleeping soundly now." She spoke strange Japanese that I could understand.

Then the arms holding the child loosened slightly, for fear of strangling him awake.

In fact, I have never held a child, especially this kind of child whose neck has not grown well.

But I don't know why, I actually hugged it very smoothly.

So while holding the baby, I listened to Gu Huo Niao how to pick us up in the snow.

I used to think our luck was terrible, but now it looks really good.

"Thank you." I thanked her sincerely.However, as soon as he blurted out the words, he froze in place.

Why can I speak strange Japanese when I don't know Japanese?

When I traveled to Japan with my friends, I relied on translation software for the whole process.The level of understanding of Japanese is also limited to the level of "hello", "goodbye", and "sorry".

And now I can not only understand strange Japanese, but also speak it fluently.

"what happened?"

See my status is wrong.Gu Huo Niao asked me softly.

I shook my head, naturally I can't say too much about language.

Then Guhuo Niao said: "During this time, you can live here with peace of mind. It seems that it will snow again in a few days. This year's snow is much more than in previous years."

"How embarrassing..." I said this kind of thing on my mouth, but I said it happily in my heart. I am really a hypocrite.Holding the child, I lowered my head to avoid her gentle gaze.

"You can rest assured." After a pause, Gu Huo Niao said: "Because you are a mother, although I can't feel the existence of blood relationship between you..."

I pursed my lips.

Mother or something, what a cheap lie.

"But you are indeed his mother, aren't you?" Gu Huo Niao smiled at me, "You are working hard to protect him."

"So, rest assured. At least after this winter moon..."

I can't confess the fact that I have nothing to do with him at all, as if once I say this, I really have nothing to do with him.In this way, didn't I become a lonely person again?

I am such a mean person.

So let me be your mother for a while.

I am sorry.

I said to the baby in the swaddle.

……

The next day, the weather was fine.I hugged Aye (because my surname is Ye, so I named him Aye. I called myself Achan.) and went out to bask in the sun.Only then did I know that we were temporarily staying in an abandoned shrine, and the gods enshrined in the shrine had long since fallen.This is what the bird told me.

Sunlight is really too exciting for young children.So I covered Ah Ye's eyes with my sleeve, which might be better for him.

In this ancient age, sunlight was the least expensive medicine.

"We survived the ice and snow..."

Gu Huo Niao came back at noon and brought me food and Aye's rice soup.

"I really can't find milk." Guhuo Niao showed guilt, and I shook her head while holding her arm.

"Rice soup is already good."

This place is deep in the mountains and old forests. Even the nearest towns don’t have any high-ranking officials and dignitaries. Some of them are full of common people who have no money like me and are in short supply.Even if there happens to be a mother who has just given birth, it is obvious that there is not much milk given the nutritional status.

After Ah Ye woke up, I fed him a little rice soup.His stomach is still too small to drink much rice soup.For the rest, warm him up when he is hungry.

Aye, who was full, didn't sleep anymore, looked around curiously with round eyes, and then smiled at me.

Gu Huo Niao said: "Look, you are his mother."