Chapter 627 (1/2)
The boatman said angrily, ”Er Gouzi, are you making up a story for me? I have nothing to do with who the man who got into the woods is. ”
”Ha ha... I'll tell you who the man who got into the woods is, and you'll be surprised.”
”Ha ha... My wife gave birth to a baby at home last night. It's not my wife who went into the woods to give birth to a baby. As for which family of women went into the woods, I'm not interested in knowing.”
”Boatman, I tell you: the man who got into the woods is the midwife, aunt Qian.”
The boatman was stunned for a moment and asked, ”what's aunt Qian doing in the woods? Not going out with her lover in the woods? ”
”Boatman, I also feel very strange, so I followed her. When Aunt Qian left, I ran to the woods and saw that she had lost a bag of things.”
”What did you lose?”
”A bag of blood whistling things, I used a flashlight, scared me, I turned and ran, just ran two steps, heard the baby's cry, mom, scared to death, scared out of a cold sweat, I ran home like a rabbit, closed the door, the heart ah plop plop straight jump.”
The boatman laughed and said, ”Er Gouzi, I think: Aunt Qian just gave birth to my daughter-in-law. What she threw away must be the placenta. This is the old rule. The placenta of pregnant women is thrown away by the midwife. It's nothing to be surprised about.”
”Boatman, the question is: does the placenta cry?”
The boatman asked, ”do you really hear the baby crying?”
”Of course, it's loud. I think I can hear it even from 100 meters away.”
”Er Gouzi, you must be hysterical. Maybe you just heard some animal's cry and thought it was a baby's cry.”
”Boatman, I'm not a fool, but I'm not a fool. I should say that I'm still a smart man. What I really hear is the cry of the baby. Up to now, the cry of the baby still echoes in my ears.”
The boatman's face sank down and said, ”take me to the woods. If it's true or false, it's clear.”
Er Gouzi took the boatman to the woods, but there was no baby crying in the woods.
Er Gouzi looked for a while and finally found the bloody placenta.
He said: ”strange, how light left placenta, last night I heard clearly, is a baby's cry, can't be wrong.”
The boatman squatted down and scratched the pile of placentas. He found that there were three placentas, that is to say, his wife had three children last night, triplets.
However, there are only two children in his family. Is there a child left in the woods by Aunt Qian?
The boatman concluded: Er Gouzi didn't lie. There was a living baby.
Since she is a living baby, why does aunt Qian want to leave her in the woods?
The boatman ran home and asked his wife, ”how many children did you have last night?”
”Two, twins.”
”Wife, you are so confused. You gave birth to three children last night. Just now I went to the woods at the entrance of the village and found three placentas. Er Gouzi met aunt Qian last night. He saw aunt Qian throw placentas into the woods and heard a baby cry.”
The boatman's wife panicked and said, ”I... I was exhausted when I gave birth last night. I was already half in a coma. I don't know how many children I had.”
”You are such a silly woman. I don't even know how many children I have. I'm not as stupid as you.”