After the devil, she ran away again

Chapter 372 Abandoned Baby (2)

It was getting bright, and the woman walked out of the village with the child in her arms, with a sad expression on her face and tears in her eyes.

She put the child in a small wooden basin and murmured: "Son, it's not that mother doesn't love you, it's that mother can't live anymore... You will only be bullied if you stay in the village... Mother is also helpless..." The woman hung a small silver bell around the child's neck and stuffed it into the swaddle, and said reluctantly, "My child, live well..."

After finishing speaking, he pushed the wooden basin away from the shore, and gradually drifted away with the help of the river water and wind.

The woman hanged herself after returning home. She had no husband and had a child out of wedlock. She was criticized and insulted in the village. If it wasn't for keeping the child alive, she would have gone to hell a long time ago. Now the child was born smoothly. There is no nostalgia.

The wooden basin went down the river, and the baby girl was still sleeping.

After floating for an unknown amount of time, the baby girl felt hungry and started crying in the tub.

"Hey, Shiro, why do I seem to hear a child crying?" A woman in her thirties and forties was digging a hole in the reeds, and said to the man beside her when she heard the sound.

There is a scar on the left eye of the man, he looks very fierce, he is the husband of this woman.He stopped the activity in his hand and listened carefully. It was indeed the sound of a child crying.

"And this voice, why is it getting closer and closer?" The woman looked around worriedly.

"Bury it first and then go and have a look. If someone finds out, kill it." The man continued to drag the corpse's feet, dragged the corpse into the pit, and then took the shovel in the woman's hand and filled it with soil.

Both of them were dressed in strong clothes with arrow sleeves for walking in the rivers and lakes, and they both had sharp knives hidden on their bodies. They pushed aside the reeds and walked towards the direction where the sound came from.

The soil under the ground became wetter and softer as we walked in, and the soles of our feet were completely sunk in the mud.

"Going further is the lake beach." The woman reminded.

But the cry of the baby seemed to be a few steps away, the woman was a little scared and said, "Could it be that the water ghost is looking for a substitute to trick us?"

The man gave a disdainful laugh and said, "Would you be afraid of ghosts even if you're not afraid of living people? Just wait, I'll go and see."

The man put away the weapon in his hand, pushed aside the reeds and continued walking, until he reached the edge of the lake beach, and saw a wooden basin leaning against the shore, in which lay a pink and tender baby.

"Hey, mother-in-law, come here!" The man shouted at the top of his voice, and the woman immediately passed by.

The husband and wife looked at the abandoned baby and looked at each other. The two walked the rivers and lakes and did a lot of evil. They were famous male and female thieves. Maybe it was because the murder was too heavy, so the two had no children. Now that an abandoned baby floated in front of them, they couldn't help but feel that maybe the heavens were equal , even the wicked are not qualified to deprive family happiness.

The two took the baby home and found that there were words written on the baby's swaddle, but the two were thieves who could not read at all, so they had to put away the swaddle first.

Around the child's neck is a small silver bell, probably left by the child's mother.

"Wife." The man called his wife, and felt his eyes tingle when he saw the child he picked up, and said, "Why don't we wash our hands in the golden basin?"

The woman was also a little moved. Maybe the gods bestowed the children on them so that they could correct their evil ways and return to the right. Otherwise, wouldn’t they be afraid of having nightmares if they hugged the children with blood-stained hands?
"Third brother, I'll listen to you." The woman nodded firmly, teasing the baby girl in her arms.

(End of this chapter)