Su Ming sat in the palanquin and shook his head vigorously. He felt as if there was a layer of chaos in his mind. It was as if there was a veil covering his memories, causing Su Ming to have to spend some time to think before he could remember his past self.
He watched the people in the noodle stall talking to each other outside the palanquin and the woman crying out shrilly in the rain as she gradually left into the distance. Su Ming seemed to have understood something.
But when he thought about it carefully, he found that his mind was blank.
In silence, he sat in the palanquin and followed the man leading the way. They slowly left into the distance until they reached a corner of the county town. There was a courtyard there. It did not take up a lot of space, but it was very exquisite. There were two lanterns hanging outside the door, but they had already been extinguished. They swayed in the wind and rain.
Even though it was raining heavily in the courtyard, there were still quite a number of people busying themselves. However, if one were to take a closer look, one would be able to faintly see that every single person in the courtyard had fear in their eyes. Their bodies were shivering, as if they had been frightened by something.
The palanquin stopped outside the house. The curtain was lifted, and the man stared at Su Ming with an anxious expression.
"Doctor Mo, save my wife …"
Su Ming nodded and quickly walked out of the palanquin with the medicinal box in hand. As the man ran forward, he was dragged into the courtyard, but at the instant he did so, a shrill scream of pain came from the house in front of him. It was a woman's voice, and it was weak, as if there was unbearable pain in her voice.
At the same time, an old woman pushed open the door of the house. There was fear on her face, and when she walked out, her body trembled as she shouted loudly.
"Monster! This … This is a monster!" The old woman was clearly another midwife who had been invited. Almost at the moment she spoke, someone immediately went up to grab her and quickly dragged her out of the courtyard.
Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt. There were tears in the eyes of the man in front of him. He turned his head around and knelt down again with a thud.
"Doctor Mo, we've already invited three midwives. That was the fourth one just now, but all of them are like this. They keep shouting that there's a monster and refuse to continue. Please save us, Doctor Mo, I'm kowtowing to you." The man continued kowtowing, causing Su Ming to sigh softly. He did not bother himself with the man and instead picked up the medicinal box and walked towards the house where the pregnant woman was.
The moment Su Ming entered the house, he saw a woman lying on the bed. Her face was pale, and she looked as if she was about to die. At the instant Su Ming saw her, his heart trembled. The woman's appearance was that of Bai Feng!
Bai Feng's stomach swelled up, and Su Ming could vaguely see the faint shadow of a huge fish on it. It was the fish Su Ming had seen during his first cycle of life and death.
When Su Ming saw this scene, a bang suddenly rang out in his head. He seemed to have come to an understanding abruptly, and he also remembered the conversation between the crazed woman and the people at the noodle stall when he was in the palanquin.
"Reincarnation … Is this reincarnation? Reincarnation isn't a circle as I previously understood it to be. From beginning to end, it's a cycle of reincarnation.
"Reincarnation isn't a circle. It can be in any shape. It's a world formed by an endless number of dots!
"During my first cycle of life and death, I was a fisherman. I was a dot, and I personally saw Bai Feng being devoured by a fish. During my second cycle of life and death, I was no longer a fisherman. I became a doctor, but I was still in this world, but I was in another dot!
"This is a world, and I … will become anyone in this world due to the repeated cycles of life and death. Is this … reincarnation?" Su Ming's heart trembled. He seemed to have come to understand it somewhat, but there was still something lacking. He felt as if there were certain parts that he could not connect.
A scream of pain from the pregnant woman interrupted Su Ming's thoughts, causing his gaze to become slightly complicated when he looked at the pregnant woman.
"This person and the baby in her womb are clearly the manifestation of the will of the ring. If I sacrifice this woman and let the baby be born, I can form a link of fate with it … but …" Su Ming fell silent. He could vaguely sense the power in the cycles of life and death. It was the power of destiny. It was as if even if it was one of the countless dots in the world, the actions of that dot could change the entire world.
For example, if Su Ming chose the baby, he could let it be born smoothly, but the woman would definitely die. The baby would also have no mother, and no one would know what would happen to it in the future.
"However, if he chose the mother, he would kill the baby. Because of that, the world would lose a dot, and because of that dot, there would be no change that would happen to this dot for all eternity.
"Each cycle of life and death is related to each other. There are countless changes in the story that happened in the previous cycle, and these changes will change in an unseen manner based on what I choose …
"For example, if the fish had not devoured the girl in the first cycle of life and death, then the woman would not have had a difficult birth … and her mother would not have gone mad in the rain …"
In silence, Su Ming stared at the woman's increasingly weaker presence and the baby's presence in her womb. After a long while, he lifted his right hand and swung it at the woman. With it, the woman's presence swiftly became stronger, but behind it was her life swiftly flowing away. In just the span of a few breaths, a baby's cry rang out loud. A smile appeared at the corners of her lips, and she closed her eyes. She no longer breathed.
The mother died, and the baby lived. Or rather, the baby was born because the mother died. With a person's death, another person could live!
With the baby in his arms, Su Ming quietly pushed open the door to the room and saw an anxious man standing outside. At the instant the man saw the baby, excitement appeared on his face. He took a few steps forward, but when he saw the woman on the bed whose presence had died, his face turned pale. As he staggered, grief and indignation appeared in his eyes. He stopped moving and threw his head back to let out a shrill roar. He no longer looked at Su Ming and the baby, but instead took a step forward and arrived beside the bed. When he saw the woman who might have died, but had a motherly smile on her lips, tears fell from his eyes.
"Is this your choice?! Why didn't you ask me?! Why?!" The man turned his head around and glared at Su Ming. He did not even spare a glance at the baby in Su Ming's arms. Instead, as if he had gone mad, he roared at Su Ming.
His shrill voice made Su Ming sigh softly, but at that moment, red suddenly appeared in the man's eyes. He lifted his right hand and pointed at Su Ming.
With it, a great sense of danger rose in Su Ming's heart. When he turned his head around, his pupils shrank. He saw a scene he could not believe!
He saw an indistinct figure appearing behind the man. That figure was incredibly weak, as if it would disappear with just a gust of wind, but at the instant Su Ming saw it, his heart trembled in a manner he had never experienced before.
"How could this be..?" Su Ming mumbled. A bloody hole appeared at the center of his brows. Blood flowed out continuously, burying his life and soul.
He could not dodge that finger. It was as if it was a finger of fate. At the moment Su Ming saw the shadow behind the man, he was destined to die.
That shadow … was Su Ming who saw himself.
His body fell down slowly. At the instant Su Ming's consciousness disappeared, the entire world became still. It gradually shattered and turned into a huge vortex. In it, the fragments continued reassembling themselves. When they formed a complete world again, Su Ming opened his eyes.
It was raining. The night was dark, but the lights in the area were bright. A shrill scream of pain came from the house, causing Su Ming to snap out of his daze. When he looked around, he found that he was in a courtyard house. When he looked at it, he found that it was incredibly familiar, but there was also a hint of unfamiliarity to it.
However, that sense of unfamiliarity was very weak, and Su Ming could not help but ignore it. In its place was anxiety. He stared at the servants who were busy working in the courtyard, then at the figure under the light in the house. The person who was in pain was his wife.
On that day, his wife was about to give birth, but it had been a long time since then. There had been two midwives, and each of them had run out in terror. No matter what was said, they refused to continue delivering the baby.
"A monster … It's a monster!" The door to the house was pushed open, and an old woman ran out while trembling. Through the door, Su Ming saw his wife struggling in pain. This scene caused his heart to clench in pain.
He had forgotten his past. It was as if he was supposed to be like this. He was a rather famous official in the area. He had a well-off family, a beautiful wife, and an official's status. Yet right then, he could do nothing. He could only watch his wife in pain and watch the midwives tremble while calling her a monster.
"Someone, bring the palanquin. We're going to look for Doctor Mo!" Su Ming gritted his teeth. He remembered Doctor Mo, who had the best medical skills in the county, but for some unknown reason, he did not like him. However, at that moment, he could no longer care about anything else. When he turned around, he braved the rain and ran out of the courtyard with his servants. The group traveled at an extreme speed and passed by a noodle stall in the rainy night. He did not see the old owner of the noodle stall. He was sitting there and smoking his tobacco while casting Su Ming a glance.
He also did not pay any attention to the crazed woman who was shouting for Feng Er in the rain. Her shrill cries in the rainy night were enough to annoy people's hearts.
When they arrived outside Doctor Mo's house, he immediately went up and knocked on the door. Rain fell on his body, and it brought with it a chill, but he did not care about it at that moment. What he cared about was his wife and his child.
"Is Doctor Mo here? Doctor Mo, please save her!"
At the instant the door opened, he grabbed the middle-aged doctor who had walked out. Anxiety appeared on his face.
"Doctor Mo, save me! My wife is about to give birth. Doctor Mo, save me …"
Tomorrow, midnight! (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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