"The baby came out feet first. Your eldest daughter - in - law is likely to have a difficult labor!"
The midwife shouted inside the room. The bedding was soaked with blood.
A sharp tearing pain came from below. Li Ying opened her eyes in agony.
The midwife caught her eye and immediately shrieked.
"No good! This might be a flash of vitality before death! If we don't give her a century - old ginseng, it'll probably be a case of mother and child both dying!"
"Quick, check if it's a boy!"
Madam Qin rushed forward in a few steps and took a quick look. Seeing that it was clearly a baby girl, she clicked her tongue in disgust.
"The first - born girl in the eldest branch must be drowned! Even if she's born, this girl can't live!"
The so - called "drowning of the first - born girl" meant that all first - born daughters had to be killed for nine consecutive generations, which was believed to ensure the family's prosperity and long - lasting success.
Li Ying was stunned.
Had she... time - traveled?
Madam Qin was still calculating whether it was worth spending a fortune to save this unproductive eldest daughter - in - law.
Suddenly, the door was pushed open violently. A young dandy rushed in with a scowl on his face.
"Mother, you're so muddle - headed! That century - old ginseng costs a full twenty taels! It only cost ten taels to redeem Feiyan from the Drunken Spring Courtyard. You might as well give me the silver. I'll marry Feiyan and buy a new wife for big brother who's both talented and beautiful. Wouldn't it be a double blessing for our family?"
The speaker was the younger brother of Li Ying's husband in her previous body. He had dark circles under his eyes and a shaky gait, looking like a debauchee whose body was exhausted from his nightly escapades.
Li Ying quickly grabbed the brocade quilt and wrapped herself tightly with all her might.
It was absurd that the younger brother barged in while his sister - in - law was giving birth and even compared her to a brothel girl!
Madam Qin was not offended at all. Instead, she doted on him and said, "Stop fooling around! A woman giving birth is really inauspicious. Hurry out and don't ruin your brothers' luck!"
Then she looked at the young man in the blue robe behind the dandy. "Jing'er, what's your opinion?"
Qin Jing was Li Ying's husband in her previous body. He said indifferently, "Do everything according to the rules. Aying, as the eldest daughter - in - law, drowning the first - born girl is your duty. Don't blame me for being heartless."
Li Ying felt as if the blood under her was flowing out like a bursting river, continuously.
The previous owner of the body had lost too much blood and was on the verge of death, which was how she time - traveled here. Was she going to die right at the start?
No way!
Even if she was really going to die, she had to take this inhumane brute with her!
Li Ying took a deep breath. While Qin Jing came to move her body, she kicked him hard between the legs.
"To hell with drowning the first - born girl! You want a son? Without your manhood, let's see how you're going to have one!"
Qin Jing let out a ghostly scream. His face turned pale and green, and cold sweat instantly broke out on his forehead.
Perhaps because she had used up all her strength, she felt a sharp pain in her lower body, and another gush of blood flowed out.
"Wow - "
Hearing the baby's cries as it was born, Li Ying's vision went black, and she finally fainted.
When she woke up again, the cold ice - cold rain was hitting her face randomly.
There came a faint mewling sound like a kitten beside her.
Li Ying's eyelids seemed to be hung with two lead weights. With great difficulty, she managed to open her eyes and saw a wet little ball beside her, nuzzling in her arms.
The heavy rain had washed away all the vernix caseosa and blood on the baby. It was a clean and lovely baby girl.
The scumbags of the Qin family thought Li Ying was about to die and were sure the baby girl wouldn't survive either. So they didn't even cut the umbilical cord and just threw them into the mass grave by the seaside outside the city.
But they didn't expect that when she had just time - traveled here, she really gave birth to the baby!
"Baby, we're really lucky..."
Looking at the baby she had given birth to with all her might, Li Ying felt a strange sense of motherhood well up in her heart.
She gritted her teeth, picked up a sharp gravel, and smashed the umbilical cord.
There was an old dilapidated temple nearby. Li Ying clumsily picked up her daughter and hid inside.
Giving birth to the baby had exhausted her. She urgently needed to replenish her strength, and her throat was so dry it was smoking.
She remembered that before time - traveling, she had just received a delivery, a whole box of young coconuts she had bought, but hadn't had a chance to take a sip.
Now in this desolate temple in the wind and rain, the sweetness of coconut juice made her miss it even more.
Li Ying sighed. Then she heard a dull "thud", and a round black shadow suddenly appeared at her feet.
She was startled. Only by the light of the lightning could she see that it was actually a coconut?
"If you time - travel and can only bring the last thing you bought online, but the quantity is a hundred thousand times, what will your life be like?"
This question suddenly popped into Li Ying's mind.
Wasn't this the question she had casually answered while surfing the Internet before time - traveling?
Could it be...
As if to verify her speculation, one coconut after another appeared out of thin air.
Good.
She really had a space.
As far as she could see, there were all coconuts...
She should have bought gold bars if she had known!
Li Ying was speechless, but she still quickly cracked open a coconut and took a few big gulps. Her body finally regained some strength.
Her daughter also sucked a few mouthfuls on her chest. Mother and daughter were really exhausted. Just as they were about to fall asleep groggily, they heard a rustling sound at their feet.
A pitch - black big snake was raising its triangular head and hissing at her!
Li Ying's hair stood on end.
What should she do?
Run or not?
She was most afraid of this kind of thing. Her feet were rooted to the ground. Just as those two poisonous fangs were about to reach her, a pair of hands suddenly reached out from mid - air, tightly grabbed the snake's head, and threw it out.
Before Li Ying could say "thank you for saving my life", she saw that arm go limp and fall.
She pushed aside the weeds in the dilapidated temple, and a pale face came into view.
It was a man with well - defined features.
He had sword - shaped eyebrows and starry eyes, but there was not a trace of color on his lips. His whole body was covered in wounds, and several of the sword wounds were so deep that the bones were visible. They had been soaked white by the rain, obviously from excessive blood loss.
Was this man a bandit or a desperado?
But anyway, he had just saved her and her daughter's lives.
Li Ying hesitated for a moment and then simply pulled out the hollow hairpin on her head. She groped for the man's vein on his wrist and inserted the hairpin into it. The other end was directly connected to a freshly cracked coconut.
During the World War, soldiers who had lost too much blood in the trenches had used the colloid osmotic pressure of coconut juice to replace plasma for first - aid.
Although the risk was great, this was the only option now.
After all, this man seemed to be on his last breath. If she just ignored him, he probably wouldn't survive the night.
Li Ying didn't dare to sleep anymore. She clumsily held her daughter in her arms. With great difficulty, she managed to hold on until the rain stopped and the sky turned pale in the east. The man's face finally had some color, and she felt a little more at ease.
Just as she was about to stretch her stiff body, she heard a familiar voice not far away.
"Huh? Big sister - in - law's body was thrown here yesterday. Why is it gone?"
"We need to see her alive or find her dead body. Your brother is waiting to use that woman's placenta to make medicine to replenish his body. Hurry and look for it!"
The owners of these voices were clearly her mother - in - law and younger brother - in - law in her previous body. Li Ying felt all the blood in her body rush to her head, and her temples throbbed with anger.