In the end, Chen Nong couldn’t convince his wife and drank the bowl of ginseng soup.
During the day, Chen Nong woke up to the smell of rice, changed his clothes and walked out to find that his wife had prepared breakfast. Her face was rosy and healthier and more energetic than before the illness. The same was true for her daughter beside her.
Seeing the changes in his wife and daughter with his own eyes, Chen Nong felt sad, thinking that if he hadn’t distrusted Si Yefu before, he would not have let his wife suffer the same fate.
At the dinner table, Mrs. Chen kept talking to Chen Meier, and the topics they talked about were all related to Si Yefu.
Mrs. Chen asked Chen Meier what she had seen in Siye Mansion. Chen Meier said that she and all the spider children in Siye Mansion were good children protected by Aunt Feng. Aunt Feng was a fairy transformed from the wind and was a child protected by Aunt Feng. They all became the medicine boys of the wind, working hard to collect medicines to save more people.
In Chen Meier’s innocent narration, the horrific disaster has become more beautiful, and the monstrous children have become the embodiment of beauty, making it less difficult to accept.
Mrs. Chen and Chen Nong looked at each other and remained silent.
Chen Meier said: “It’s just that every child has a father and a mother. The parents will be sad for the lost child, and the child will miss the father and mother, so as long as the parents come to find the child, Aunt Feng will return the child to them.”
The words “As long as the father and mother come to find the child” made Chen Nong and his wife feel stuck in their throats. They both understood the deeper meaning of this – some parents may not be able to accept a child who has become a monster, and they are not sure whether the child can recover, or whether the child will be normal after recovery. The sequelae and possible rumors will make some selfish and ignorant parents choose to abandon their children.
Mrs. Chen had a soft temper and wiped her eyelids emotionally. When she looked up, she found that her husband had burst into tears.
“…”
She was so stunned that she forgot to feel sad.
Chen Nong didn’t want to do this, but he couldn’t control it at all.
[So scared, so scared, Mi Chong was crying, and his parents ran away…]
The nursery rhymes in my mind started to haunt me again with Chen Meier’s words.
Rice bugs cry, and parents run away.
So scared, so scared…
The helpless cries of countless children eroded his mind.
Chen Nong held his head in pain.
[Why? ]
Why run, why don’t you want me?
[It turns out that the rice bug has grown up]
“Husband, husband, are you okay?” Mrs. Chen saw that his expression was wrong and stood up anxiously to hold his shoulders.
Chen Nong was sweating profusely and murmured with dull eyes: “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid. Children without parents will become children of the wind. They are the embodiment of kindness. They are loved and protected by the wind, have mercy from the gods, and are accompanied by vegetation. **Lu is good at poisoning, and her sound indicates safety. Mother and child depend on each other.”