I sell demon meat in the city

Chapter 2 Meng Qi
"You're too late, child. We're so sorry, we've done our best."

In the delivery room of Qingzhou First People's Hospital, the doctor said regretfully to the expectant mother lying on the bed.

It was a full-term baby girl, but unfortunately, due to excessive loss of amniotic fluid and prolonged suffocation in the womb, she stopped breathing immediately after birth.

Meng Shulan's face was almost transparently white, and tears streamed down her face. She forced herself to sit up and pleaded with the doctor in a trembling voice, "Please, please let me hold her."

The young female doctor sighed softly. Although she sympathized with the woman in labor, she was powerless to do anything about it.

She turned and placed the wrapped baby in her arms, whispering, "Please accept my condolences."

After the doctor finished speaking, he gave a wink to the nurse next to him, and the two of them left the delivery room, leaving the mother a private space to say goodbye to her child.

Fortunately, she was the only one giving birth at that time; otherwise, she might not have had this opportunity at all.

Meng Shulan held her daughter in her arms, tears blurring her vision so she couldn't see her baby's face. She reached out and gently stroked her cold forehead, eyes, nose, and little mouth.
Then she bent down and kissed each baby's face, tears streaming down her cheeks. She quickly reached out to wipe them away, apologizing as she did so, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's Mommy's fault, it's Mommy's fault."

It's unclear whether she was apologizing to her daughter for letting her tears fall on her face, or apologizing for not taking good care of her and giving birth to her properly.

But no matter which one it was, it caused her unbearable heartache and pain.

Suddenly, Meng Shulan seemed to sense something and looked up ahead. Through her teary eyes, she saw the beautiful white-haired woman in white who had kindly taken her to the hospital.

"Me, my daughter"

Meng Shulan choked up, unable to utter a complete sentence.

The white-haired woman looked at the baby girl in her arms and frowned slightly. This child... well, meeting her was fate, I suppose.

"I can save her life, but you have to agree to one condition before that."

Meng Shulan was stunned for a moment, then nodded frantically, "I agree, I'll agree to any conditions, as long as you can save my daughter."

Even though the doctor had pronounced the child dead, and the little body in her arms was already cold, for some reason, she believed that the woman in front of her would definitely do what she said she would do.

After all, she had encountered a pig demon that completely overturned her understanding of the world before this!

"It's very simple. First, have this child become my disciple; second, name her Xiao Qi."

After speaking, the white-haired woman was taken aback for a moment; it seemed like there were two conditions.
But Meng Shulan didn't take it to heart at all and nodded decisively, "Okay, I'll do as you say. I'll become your disciple. Also, name her Xiao Qi, and her formal name will be Meng Qi."

Meng Qi?

also.

The white-haired woman was quite satisfied. She said no more, walked closer to the new mother, and gently touched the baby's forehead with her slender white index finger.

Meng Shulan felt a blur before her eyes, as if a dazzling light fell on her daughter's forehead. However, before she could look closely, the baby, who had stopped breathing, suddenly let out a weak cry from her bluish-purple mouth.

"Wow!" Meng Shulan was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears of excitement, "Baby!"

"It's Xiao Qi," the white-haired woman kindly corrected in a low voice.

"Hello, is this Mr. Lin Qingquan?"

"I am, who are you?"

"This is the Longshan Police Station in Qingzhou. Well, something happened at your home. We haven't been able to contact your wife. We hope you can come over as soon as possible to cooperate with the investigation."

Accident?

At this moment, Lin Qingquan, who was in Kyoto, suddenly stood up from his chair, his eyes wide open and his face changed drastically!
Shulan's child
After hanging up the phone, Lin Qingquan hurriedly turned to leave, but his arm was grabbed by someone, and at the same time a gentle female voice sounded from the side, "Senior brother, things aren't over yet, where are you going?"

Lin Qingquan pulled his arm away from the woman's hand, without answering her question. He looked anxiously at the old man sitting in the main seat, wearing a gray robe and with gray hair. "Uncle-Master, I have to go back to Qingzhou. Something has happened at home."

"What could be more important than finding your master?" The old man raised his eyes, his gaze sharp as he looked at him. "Lin Qingquan, have you forgotten what you promised me before?"

Lin Qingquan frowned slightly. He didn't return to his original seat, but looked at the old man without flinching and said, "I'm sorry, Uncle-Master, my wife is about to give birth, and I have to rush back now no matter what. As for my master..."

As he spoke, he turned to look at a middle-aged man with a large beard across from him, "If you have any specific news, please let me know as soon as possible, Brother Nan. I will try my best to come over after I have taken care of things at home."

After saying that, Lin Qingquan turned and left. Almost instantly, he was out of the small courtyard and appeared on the roadside a hundred meters away.

With a loud bang, the old man sitting in the main seat slammed his hand on the table with a livid face, and the fine, heavy pear wood cracked open with a "crack".

"Damn it! In his heart, his master isn't as important as that woman."

The bearded middle-aged man said helplessly, "Master, didn't Junior Brother Lin say that his child is about to be born? How can he not go back for such a big event? Besides, it's obvious that the information we received is false. Martial Uncle can't possibly go there, and we can't come to a conclusion in a short time. Even if Junior Brother Lin stays here, it's useless. Please calm down for the sake of his upcoming child."

"Humph!"

The old man snorted, but ultimately said nothing more.

The woman who had grabbed Lin Qingquan's arm earlier blinked, then a strange smile appeared on her lips.

However, the smile vanished in an instant, followed by a feigned sigh, "Alas, Senior Brother Lin is such a brilliant genius, yet he insists on marrying an ordinary person. Look, she's holding him back. It's just a pregnancy, and it's happening in her own home, yet an accident still occurs. She can't even protect herself, how will she protect the child? This has completely tied Senior Brother Lin down. Sigh, do you think Senior Brother Lin will still be able to help the country fight demons in the future?"

The old man, who had just been calmed down by the bearded man, flew into a rage again upon hearing this. "You wicked disciple! We should have tied him up when he first had this idea. How is my Yue'er inferior to that woman? So what if she has a child? With an ordinary person like her, the child she gives birth to will most likely be stupid and useless."

Xiao Yuehua, the woman who had just spoken, pouted slightly, looking aggrieved. Her head drooped, and a fierce glint flashed in her eyes, unseen by anyone.

The bearded man glanced at his junior sister with a complicated expression, but didn't say anything more.

(End of this chapter)