Chapter Forty-six Origin

  At this time, Xiao Ye smiled and said: "I'll take a look, why is such a good little baby crying?"

  Xiao Yu had just come in and hadn't noticed the little boy, but when the young couple brought the baby back in, the baby suddenly stopped crying, which caught Xiao Yu's attention. Xiao Yu felt a faint aura of evil surrounding the baby's body, but it retracted into a ball and floated at the door as soon as they entered the house.

  Xiao Yu took another step closer to the baby, and the dark aura trembled twice. When Xiao Yu reached out his hand and gently teased the baby's small face, the baby couldn't laugh out loud, but still showed a smiling face. The dark aura suddenly disappeared with a 'hiss'.

  Xiao Jianying, Xiao Yu, Lu Jianhong and the couple were all shocked. Since the couple brought the baby into the house in the morning, the child didn't smile at all, but kept crying nonstop. Xiao Jianying checked the baby's pulse and found that there was nothing wrong with the baby's body, but no matter how they teased him, he couldn't stop crying. Now her own son went over to tease the baby's face, and the baby showed a smiling face, which made Xiao Jianying very curious.

  Xiao Yu and Lu Jianhong had also experienced the power of this baby's crying, now they couldn't help but laugh whenever Xiao Ye teased them. They were particularly surprised, and Xiao Yu's gaze at her younger brother also revealed a hint of pride.

  That young couple has been like ants on a hot pot for the past two days. The child starts crying at night and doesn't stop for a moment, their throat is already a bit hoarse from crying, but they still don't stop. No matter what their family members do, it's no use. They've gone to so many hospitals and had so many tests done, but the child still cries nonstop every night. They only stop crying after 8 or 9 pm during the day, but start again at 6 or 7 pm in the evening, leaving the couple exhausted.

  Hearing from fellow villagers that the traditional Chinese medicine doctor here is quite good, I came with an attitude of trying it out early in the morning while my child was crying. Who knew there was no solution either? Just when I was despairing, my child suddenly stopped crying, but as soon as we left the clinic door for less than five minutes, he started crying again. My husband and I were not reconciled, so we took him back, and to our surprise, our son who hadn't smiled in two days actually smiled.

  "Doctor, what's wrong with my son?" The young mother looked at her son with a smile on his face, a look of surprise and anticipation on hers as she gazed at Xiao Yu.

  "Yes! Doctor!" The child's father also let out a sigh of relief and asked cautiously.

  Xiao Yu glanced at the parents of the child and asked the father, "When did the child start crying?"

  "The day before yesterday evening, a little more!" said the child's father thoughtfully.

  "What time will you be back home?" Xiao Yu asked again.

  "It was probably around midnight! That night I went out to play cards and came back a bit late!" The child's father thought for a moment, revealing an embarrassed expression.

  "Ah! That's right!" Xiao Yu nodded and continued: "The child is fine, but you shouldn't come home so late in the future. It's best to be back by 11 o'clock, otherwise just stay overnight and return the next day!"

  Upon hearing Xiao Yu say this, the young couple was stunned for a moment. The child's mother hastily asked: "What's wrong? Doctor, did my son come into contact with something unclean?"

  Xiao Yu smiled and didn't say a word, walked to the table, picked up a brush and wrote a prescription on paper, handed it to his mother and said: "Mom, give this child some medicine!"

  When the child's mother asked this, Xiao Jianying was a bit better, but Xiao Yu and Lu Jianhong felt a chill rising from their backs to the top of their heads. It turned out that Lu Jianhong often came home in the middle of the night due to social engagements, and now thinking about it, both of them felt a lingering fear.

  Xiao Jianying handed the medicine to the child's parents, and Xiao Yu said: "The child is too young to take the medicine. You go home and grind the medicine into a powder, divide it into three portions, make a sachet for the child to carry with him, change one portion every day, and after three days, his hoarse voice will be fine!"

  The couple took their medicine and left with a thousand thanks. From far away, they heard the two arguing: "It's all your fault for coming back so late!"

  "Wife, it won't happen again next time..."

  Xiao Yu turned around and saw that his mother and sister-in-law were all staring at him with curious expressions, making Xiao Yu's heart feel a bit hairy. He touched his face with one hand and looked himself up and down, but there was nothing wrong. So he carefully asked: "Mom, sister, brother-in-law, what are you looking at me for?"

  Watching the strange and wonderful scene just now, Xiao Yu, Lu Jianhong, and Xiao Jianying were all very nervous in their hearts, and at the same time, they secretly wondered how Xiao Ye knew these things.

  "Little brother, what's going on with that child? Did he really run into something unclean?" Xiao Yu asked anxiously, her husband also often came home late at night, and seeing this child crying nonstop made her very fearful.

  Upon hearing Xiao Yu ask this, Lu Jianhong and Xiao Jianying also looked at Xiao Ye with tense expressions.

  It's more accurate to say that the child was struck by a malignant aura rather than an evil spirit. The child's father returned after midnight, which is when the malignant aura in the air is most dense. Although it's said that the malignant aura is thick at night, it's only a thin layer, and people with strong vital energy won't be invaded by such a weak aura. Especially for those who practice martial arts, they can even dispel the malignant aura.

  But that little kid's father must have passed through a place with very dense yin energy in the cemetery that night, and he must have lost money playing cards that day, feeling extremely down. A person's emotional ups and downs mainly react on their qi and blood, which is why some people, if they're not emotionally well, won't look disheveled and haggard after a couple of days. So when emotions are low, yin energy easily invades the body or stays on its surface, and that person was in his 20s, at the peak of his life's qi and blood, so even though yin energy entered his body, he only felt a chill and numbness on his scalp.

  Children are the most vulnerable to evil spirits, and their feelings are the most sensitive. When adults contract evil spirits, it only manifests as a chill, but when children contract them, it is very obvious. The most common manifestation is night crying, because during the day, the yang energy is strongest, and the yin evil spirits will gather in dark corners, and at night they will disperse and gather around people who have been invaded by evil spirits.

  Xiao Yu looked at his sister, brother-in-law and mother who were all staring at him waiting for his answer, but he couldn't tell them the truth. Suddenly, Xiao Yu thought of an excuse and said: "Mom, when you took the pulse of the child just now, didn't you feel a chill?"

  "Now that you mention it, I thought it was because of the autumn weather!" Xiao Jianying said after some thought.

  "It's autumn now, and the cold air is heavy at night. The child's father came back late and brought back too much cold air, which made the child's sensitive skin react badly, so he cried loudly. Originally, it would have been fine after a day of sun, but last night, they ran around to find a hospital for the child, making him catch another cold. As I'm a man with a strong fire energy and I just got up with a warm body, I was able to comfort the child and stop his crying." Xiao Yu explained to his mother and sister's husband.

  "Oh......" The three of them suddenly realized.

  Seeing the three of them believe it, Xiao Yu let out a long sigh of relief.

  "Jian Hong, I'm telling you, after this, you can't come back late again, did you hear me?" Xiao Yu said seriously to her husband.

  "Don't worry, wife! For our son's sake, I won't be too late coming back!" Lu Jianhong patted his chest to guarantee after hearing Xiao Yu's words.

  Yesterday evening, Xiao Ye was still thinking about what gift to bring for his nephew's first birthday. Now that he heard his sister mention it, couldn't he just make a jade amulet to ward off evil spirits for his nephew?

  Thanks to Wang150 brother for the reward and evaluation. Today's power outage, after the power outage, I said let's fix the computer! There was a small problem, but who knew that the more I fixed it, the bigger the problem became. Sorry everyone, it's late today.