Broken Sword's
Ch. 06: Fang's Suffering

Fang, who had just managed to turn around, was instead returned to his supine sleeping position. His eyebrows creased, but the perpetrator laughed at him. Well how, the only way he can do now is...

"Gana, what are you doing!" Aira who heard Fang crying came into the room and nagged her husband. Fang had recently learned to turn around at the age of five months, sometimes Aira would get her used to learning to sit.

Fang's liveliness is known to Aira. Fang likes to be taken away to look around the village, sit alone with a cushion protection in the room, or learn to know the soft food provided.

Just one problem. Fang would cry as Gana approached. Not without reason, Gana is indeed ignorant. Fang, who was over a hundred years old, wanted to bite into Gana's flesh. This nominal father is too irritating.

Fang success. Gana glared at Aira and pulled herself up to sit in a corner. soothed in a soft cradle, Fang was sleepy. Can't sleep! Fang smelled the smell of meat porridge. Himself hungry.

Sure enough, Fang's stomach grumbled. Aira touched Fang's round belly, "the baby is hungry?"

Strange, Fang had just been given milk. Is your child still hungry?

Gana who also heard Fang's hungry stomach voice gawked. "It's not been a year but this kid's been drinking a lot of milk! Are we going to raise waste?"

Aira hit Gana with a elbow. "Who are you calling wasteful?!"

Fang's hope of tasting the meat porridge was not fulfilled. Aira did not understand her chatter and gave her milk, about Gana, do not involve this person. A day of not bothering is already very good.

Fang, who was sitting by himself leaning against the mattress pillow, looked longingly at the food on the table. The last few months have been very painful. He smelled a delicious scent but could not eat.

When can baby children in the lower regions eat like adults? Need another five years? No, if it's not wrong when the baby stops drinking milk right? When should babies stop drinking milk? Little chief Fang tried to recall all the knowledge he had read about the general knowledge of the region under Gollum.

Forgetit. His small brain can be damaged if it continues to be forced. Fang sniffed for the last time before going to bed due to drowsiness.

***

This year's harvest was indeed as good as the village chief had said. Villagers who had finished drying the crops had put all the grains and rice into the sack.

Buwin has also informed all residents of his village to hand over the harvest before the day after tomorrow. This year's tax must be paid without delay or county officials come knocking on his door!

Buwin's wife who also just finished weighing the harvest smiled widely. None of his land failed. This year the farms in the village seemed to be making ten percent profit from last year. "I've weighed it. The two sacks I put in front are handed over for food taxes, for tax money, tomorrow I'll give."

Knock the door interrupting. Buwin's wife opened the door, apparently Manda who came with two sacks of crops with her husband, Juan.

"Mara's Jiang."

Buwin who followed from behind helped Juan carry two sacks to the storage shed next to the house.

Manda who is welcome to enter is treated to a glass of tea. Mara who liked to gossip started to open the chat room.

"The house at the end of the village also gave birth to a baby?"

Manda put on a polite face. It is known that Mara will not let anyone off when she starts gossiping.

"No. The baby's gone."

Mara approaching, "miscarriage? Is that a baby boy?"

Buwin is a village chief who often deals with villagers. Even if Mara rarely met residents, she would know about a married couple who live at the end of the village.

"My husband helped me with the cure. I don't ask much."

Mara realizes that Manda has trouble opening her mouth, does not want to lose her face, Mara lies in needing to prepare dinner and leaves Manda sitting alone in the living room.

"Where's my wife?"

Manda hurriedly explained, "Mara went to the kitchen to cook. Done already?"

Juan who cleaned the remaining wheat powder from the clothes nodded, "it's done. Buwin, I'm going home."

"Oh yeah, be careful."

On the way home Manda remembered the condition of the blood-soaked Jini lying on the tile floor. Jini's husband came home drunk, not seeing any food to eat, Jini's husband darkened his eyes and pulled the sleeping Jini to be beaten.

Jini's husband who expressed emotions forgot that Jini was pregnant, finished being angry, Jini's husband went to sleep. At dawn, Jini's half-conscious husband remembered what he had done. Climbing up, Jini who was still lying on the floor was bleeding heavily.

The manda who heard the sound of the call woke Juan. Knowing what had happened, the two of them rushed over without even washing their faces or changing their sleeping clothes.

Jini coma.

Juan, who is known to be a talented doctor, was unable to save the conceived baby and sentenced Jini to no longer be able to conceive. Jini's stomach was hit and kicked, causing fatal damage to her uterus.

Jini's husband fell. Beat her face, but what can be changed? The boy is missing and Jini becomes severely depressed.

Juan suggests Jini report a beating, but Jini refuses. The woman did not dare. As a married woman, losing a husband is like losing a pillar. Juan did not insist, after examining the condition and keeping a record of the drugs to be bought and drunk, Juan and Manda did not stay long and left from there.

The outsider who heard Jini was sick thought Jini was an ordinary miscarriage. Juan also did not open his mouth which made everyone trust their guesses even more.

"Why daydream?"

Manda. Juan would not be happy to discuss the events of the day. "I'm not daydreaming."

***

Aira got the sad news. Jini who was sick after the miscarriage just died. Jini's husband who ran towards the village head's house passed the house crying.

Gana closed the doors and windows tightly. "You and the baby are forbidden to leave the house for a week. People die past our houses, it's not good to bring bad luck."

Fang who was playing on the bed turned the eyeball. People used to believe in myths. Even if it is dead, every spirit cannot hurt man. At best I can see without touching.

Time has just passed five months. It took him another five months to learn to walk. Fang did not feel at home for long. The information that he knew all came from ancient books and records, Fang needed to examine himself and figure out how to awaken the divine root.

"Fang hungry?" Aira who saw the baby did not move and continued to move her mouth without teeth was misunderstood. Fang really wants to grow up soon! He wanted to eat normal food!