The Baby Tower, also known as the Bone Tower, or the Children's Home, is essentially a small house used to dispose of dead babies.
In the beginning, it was built by some kind-hearted people who expressed sympathy for the young souls who were abandoned by their parents and whose bodies were exposed in the wilderness.
But over time, this type of building turned into a huge slaughterhouse.
Countless mutilated, sick, and some young souls who were sent here just because they were sent to the wrong family are entrenched in this place that originally housed the poor souls.
It should be noted that tower-shaped buildings were originally religious buildings. For the Chu State where witchcraft and ghost culture was prevalent, tower-shaped buildings with traces of belief in gods and Buddhas were not popular.
At least when Taoist Fu Guang was still out and about, there were no rumors that this type of architecture was becoming popular in Chu.
Even Chu Tai's own understanding of the Infant Tower can be seen from the anecdotes collected by Jinhua Zong.
Chu Tai could roughly guess the reason why this type of building appeared in Chu State, but he didn't like it and couldn't do anything about it. He could only turn around and planned to bypass the villages and towns ahead after confirming that there were no living creatures in the tower.
"Please wait a moment! Please wait a moment, sir!"
Looking back, Chu Tai saw a man in his early twenties running over with a baby in his arms.
In Chu Tai's perception, the thing in the man's arms still had a faint vitality. He thought about the baby tower next to him, and his face darkened.
Chu Tai, who kept in mind his persona as a middle-aged side sect warlock, suppressed his displeasure, flicked the dust in his hand, brought up a few rays of light, stopped the man who wanted to approach, and slightly protected the man in his arms. The child stretched out his hand to seal the knot and asked, "What is this little brother doing for you?"
The young man, who was a little frightened by Chu Tai's hand, knelt on the ground with a pop and prayed to Chu Tai.
"Sir, please show your kindness and pray for my poor baby so that she will not come to my house again. This is the deposit. If you think it is not enough, I can also prepare fifty taels of silver."
The man looked sad, took out a few pieces of broken silver from his arms, and raised the swaddling clothes high in his hand. Inside was a baby with a slightly blue complexion.
Judging from the child's wrinkled skin and the weak but residual innate energy in his body, it was obvious that he was less than ten days old.
Chu Tai stretched out his hand and touched the child's heart, injecting gentle and warm magic into it.
'Baby boy? '
Chu Tai was a little surprised by the changes in the breath returned by the mana. He thought the child was a baby girl after listening to the man's words before.
After all, the harsh external environment in the southern part of Chu State and the fighting between various ethnic groups made many villages here want to have more men in their families.
This also resulted in many newborn babies, whose eyes were still blurred, being thrown into rivers, into ponds, pressed into basins, covered in quilts, and even boiled with boiling water. This is the land of reincarnation of grains. , and even under the road.
The saddest thing is that many of the people who do these things are the biological parents of the babies. They don't mind using the most vicious methods to kill their children, so that they will not dare to come to their homes again when they are reincarnated.
Therefore, when Chu Tai heard the young man begging Chu Tai to let the child stop coming to his home, his first reaction was that the child was a baby girl.
He glanced at the young man again and asked his doubts. Only then did he know that this young man got married five years ago and has given birth to four children. The first three were boys. For other families, it must be a happy thing. But his family is very strange, no child can live beyond the full moon.
"This time, I finally got a girl. I thought she would have a better life than my brothers. But, in the end... she didn't even survive ten days! What kind of evil have I done!"
When the young man said this, he couldn't help crying, but Chu Tai said in surprise: "Girl doll?"
With that said, he took the swaddling clothes and opened a corner. The scene inside made him stunned for a moment. Then Chu Tai reacted, looked at the man and asked, "Did your wife take any medicine during pregnancy?"
"Sir, what's the problem?"
The young man had a good brain. Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment, then looked at Chu Tai, his face turned red and said: "You mean someone is plotting against my family! They deliberately harmed my mother-in-law when she was pregnant!"
After hearing this, Chu Tai thought for a moment and responded: "First of all, your child is not dead yet. Secondly, he is a boy. It is just because your wife absorbed a large amount of negative drugs during pregnancy, which caused this The child's yin and yang are confused, the yang energy is introverted, and the yin energy is exposed, making it look like a female baby."
As he spoke, Chu Tai exposed the corner of the swaddling clothes in front of the young man, and at the same time stretched out his finger and touched the child's heart.
The floating light of Nanyan Cave was injected with true energy. Under the influence of the two characteristics of "life and purity", the cyan color on the child's face gradually faded, and bursts of weak crying came out.
At the same time, the baby's body also showed subtle changes, and the young man's face turned green and red.
He gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and veins popped out on the surface of his arms.
Chu Tai, who saw how passionate he was at this moment, said coldly: "Can you save this child? I want to make it clear to you in advance that his yin and yang were confused when he was in his mother's womb. Even if he is properly nursed back to health in the future, he will not be able to survive when he grows up. Weaker than average men, and have difficulty conceiving."
What Chu Tai said is actually a good thing. In the past, none of the children whose yin and yang were confused had a good ending.
The attributes of innate yin and yang are interfered with by acquired yin and yang during the gestation process, destroying the purity of the innate and messing up the concreteness of the acquired.
Most of these children will lose their fertility, and as they grow older and without acquired conditioning, the conflict between internal and external yin and yang will become more and more serious.
Eventually, the body and personality of such children become distorted to a certain extent.
Even if this infant child is slightly remedied by the Floating Xi Yao Zhenqi from the Yandong south of Chutai, the attributes of Zhenqi are only acquired yin and yang, and it is difficult to fill the innate deficiency. At most, he will be healthier than his peers. Some, just restore some fertility.
If the father cannot afford the later education and conditioning, the child's future may be worse than death.
"Save! Why don't you save my baby!"
The young man kowtowed to Chu Tai continuously: "Please save him!"
"I can save him, but this is not your problem alone. I will go back and ask your wife or your parents first. Find out why this child's yin and yang are confused."
When the young man heard this, he stood up quickly and walked toward the village with Chu Tai.
Not long after walking, he met an old man enjoying the shade under a big tree. When he saw the young man, he raised his hand to say hello. When he saw Chu Tai behind the young man and the swaddle held by Chu Tai in his arms, he was stunned for a moment. .
The young man who didn't care hurriedly took Chu Tai back to his home. He first ran to the bedroom, paused again on the way, turned around and asked Chu Tai to wait for a while, and then called his parents out before taking him. He followed the two old men and Chu Tai into the bedroom to meet his wife lying on the bed.
