Chapter 641
He felt guilty as he continued to wallow in the pit of self-blame, feeling scared and panicked. He twitched silently for a while before he fell asleep. He was really too tired.
Lin Lan thought that this child was really scared. Sanwang rarely cried at ordinary times, but now he was like a frightened bird. He was probably terrified of the experience.
Maisui, “Mother, we should ask Auntie Xiuyun’s mother to help us,” Xiuyun’s mother was able to call upon spirits.
Although Lin Lan didn’t believe it at first, she didn’t care so much now. With the mentality of having that extra insurance, she let Maisui call the elder woman over.
Xiuyun’s mother and Maisui came over quickly. She quickly walked into the house and looked at the child, “It’s true that good children would be blessed later in life.”
She asked Lin Lan to get some burning paper, offered a bowl of millet and burned three sticks of incense as she called upon the spirits.
Children in rural areas were easily frightened. They always looked for someone to summon the spirits, asking for psychological comfort even if it didn’t work.
After the procedure, Lin Lan couldn’t care to know whether it worked or not. At any rate, Sanwang finally fell asleep and Xiaowang was also sleeping soundly.
Lin Lan talked to Xiuyun’s mother and she comforted Lin Lan not to get angry in a hurry. Children of this age tended to be smaller and easily clumsy, she tried to insist.
“There are many of us adults who fell into the river before, let alone a child of this size. The women who wash their clothes, the commune members who capture bugs and so on.”