Chapter 1 Birth of a Blind Infant
In October of autumn, the camellia trees in the backyard of Chuyuan could no longer resist the arrival of frost and fell in the wind. The season when flowers withered inevitably looked frustrated, which made people feel a little bleak.
The light red camellia petals fell from the branches to the soil and on the earth. After the heavy rain the night before, the fallen camellia petals had become muddy and attached to the roots in a mess. This is the only camellia tree in the backyard of the Chu family. The Chu family servants have taken good care of this old tree for decades, but today they have not noticed the petals withered on the ground.
The servants in the backyard of the Chu family were busy because their wife was born prematurely. Everyone was nervous just for the cry of a baby that would come out in the east room of the courtyard at some point.
Suddenly, the crying and sharp crying sounded like a broken bamboo, and the sound became louder and louder, and it spread more and more from the backyard. This was not only the wife's second child, but also the second child of the Chu family.
In the delivery room, Zhu Ran, the close maid next to her, picked up the plain cloth on the edge of the bed and picked up the newborn baby with a slight hand.
"Madam, this child's eyes..." Zhu Ran coaxed the baby who was still crying while gently wiped the blood from the baby's face with his hands. When he saw this child, Zhu Ran felt something was wrong. The center of the baby's eyes was not crystal black, and the feeling was indescribable, as if the crystal black part of the eyeball was covered by a gauze. The hernia gray thing was not a dirty thing, it belonged to part of the eyes.
The eldest lady was already stained with sweat and had no strength at all, but she still forced herself to hold back her sleep and tried to wave her arms to the child. She wanted to see the baby. The moment she took the baby, the eldest lady could no longer hold it back, "Why, it's a blind girl..." Two tears flowed down uncontrollably, this was her second child.
When she was pregnant with her first child, the master wanted a young master very much. He blamed her for not being able to do anything, so he gave birth to a baby girl. He had asked the secret recipe for a boy, but he tried it one by one but didn't expect that this time it was not only a girl, but also... "And it was actually blind..." The eldest lady lay on the bed and looked at the baby beside her. She gently stroked the baby's face, and tears blurred her eyes. She looked at the baby in the scrambled sideways, and the baby couldn't see anything clearly...
"Why did God make things difficult for me so hard!" The eldest lady cried in her throat, and she could only suppress her sadness and whimper.
"Madam, please be gentle, don't be heard by outsiders." Zhu Ran reminded him very well. It would be fine if the person who was outside the house knew that the newly born child was a baby girl. If the baby girl was blinded, the wife would not have a good life in the mansion in the future.
After a while, the eldest lady made up her mind to cough gently and clear her throat. "Zhu Ran" she said.
"Madam" Takeran understood what the lady meant and held her hand and whispered, "You have to think it through."
"Go and bring that boy. When she falls asleep, Ansheng will take her to Qingguan Temple and hand it over to the abbot Mu Qing."
The boy mentioned by the lady was a mother-lost son found in the countryside. He had no relatives or concerns and was just like this child. The eldest lady had already thought about it and would exchange it for a boy if it was another daughter.
The eldest lady tied a necklace strung with a blood-red pearl on the baby's neck. She looked at the blind baby beside her. The child would never see the world or the person she loved or loved...
"This is the first gift my mother gave you, and it may be the last time..." When she said this, her left face had been soaked in tears, and the pillow was soaked in tears. She closed her eyes and gently kissed the baby girl's forehead, turned her head to the other side of the pillow, wiped her tears, and said in a voice, "Zhu Ran, take her away."
She said so decisively because she was worried that if the baby didn't leave, she would be even more reluctant to let go. She knew that, but when Zhu Ran took the baby girl away, she couldn't help but swallowed...
A baby boy was replaced, white and tender, extremely well-behaved, neither crying nor making a fuss. He sucked his fingers, opened his bright and clean eyes, and looked at the woman lying on the bed. He smiled and regarded her as his mother, and he should also regard her as his mother...
After Zhu Ran changed the child, she coaxed the baby girl in her hand. She found a quieter corner, gently patted the baby girl's back, hummed a lullaby to coax her to fall asleep gradually. After she fell asleep, Zhu Ran found a bamboo basket. The bamboo basket originally contained some dirty cloth strips after giving birth. After the dirty cloth strips were put in, Zhu Ran laid a clean red cloth on it so that it could isolate the baby girl from the dirty things.
After everything was done, the last step was to send the baby girl out. After everything was ready, Zhu Ran was about to take the bamboo basket out. Before stepping out, she saw the lady's gaze. The lady looked at the bamboo basket helplessly and weakly, without saying a word on her mouth, she really didn't say a word, and after a while she turned her head again.
Seeing that the lady turned her head, Zhu Ran carefully covered a bamboo lid with bamboo strips on the bamboo basket, and carefully checked for any mistakes. Seeing that there were no flaws, she walked out of the house with the bamboo basket carefully, stood on the highest stairs in front of the house and shouted to the bottom, "Madam is born!~I have given birth to a young master!——" She shouted and walked down the steps.
After she finished speaking, everyone would no longer notice the bamboo basket she carried in her hand. Taking advantage of the loophole, Zhu Ran hurriedly lowered her head and walked out of the mansion, for fear that the baby lying in the frame would suddenly burst into tears and make everyone gather. Fortunately, God was merciful. The child seemed to know along the way, and even if he woke up, he would not make a noise or make a fuss. Of course, the child would not be afraid of anything...
He rushed to the temple and found the host.
"Abbot Mu Qing" Zhu Ran knelt down when she saw the abbot. She held the bamboo basket high and cried and told the abbot about the completion of the matter, "This is my wife's only wish. In view of the fact that the wife has been looking for someone to repair the temple for many years, please kindly take this baby in your heart."
Abbot Mu Qing held the beads and pressed his hand tightly against his body, while the other hand lifted the lid of the bamboo basket. A pretty little face appeared in front of him. The child looked dazed. After a closer look, he was clearly blind. "Amitabha~ I will leave this child to the monk, and the female donor will ask him to get up quickly."
"Thank you, abbot!"
Zhu Ran stood up from the ground, "This child left his mother early and had no name. My wife felt that this child became like this and was harmed by the Chu family, so she didn't want the child's surname to be Chu in the future. My wife hopes that the abbot can give the baby girl a name again."
Abbot Mu Qing looked up at the sky outside. Although the red sunset had basically fallen, the remaining light still made the skylight light slightly brighter. It was already evening but it could still show the morning light that appeared slightly at dawn.
He looked down at the baby in the box and said, "This child will be called Li Wanli from now on."
Li Wan-hyun. "This name is very good, but... is it a little tough?"
Chapter completed!