The ward.
It was silent.
One could hear each other’s heartbeats.
The moment Li Jiafu saw the baby, his pupils shrunk violently and he asked in horror, “How could this happen?”
“Ah …… what kind of monster is this?”
The youth screamed loudly in fear, as if he had seen a ghost.
As for Bai Bing, he was relatively calmer, but at this moment, his face was also a bit white as he asked Ye Qiu, “Is this a ghost baby?”
“Hmm.”Ye Qiu nodded.
This baby was a baby boy, only twenty to thirty centimetres long, weighing no more than four pounds, and was covered in blackness, as if it had rolled inside coal.
Not only that, the baby’s face was purple and green in colour, with two three centimetre long fangs.
This was not the most horrible thing, the most horrible thing was that the baby had no eyes.
“Director Li, you’ve worked in the obstetrics department for so many years and have delivered many babies, so this should be the first time you’ve seen a baby like today, right?”Ye Qiu said.
“Hmm.”Li Jiafu’s face was gloomy and said, “I’m afraid this baby is …… not easy to survive.”
“You’re precisely wrong, the ghost baby’s vitality is very tenacious, and even, it’s better than many babies that are just born weighing eight or nine pounds.”
“Is that so?”
Li Jiafu was a bit sceptical and wanted to ask Ye Qiu a few more questions, but suddenly he saw the woman in labour looking at him and immediately closed his mouth.
“Li, Director Li, can you show me the baby?”The woman in labour said slowly.
Li Jiafu hesitated a bit, he was afraid that the baby’s appearance would scare the woman in labour, so he couldn’t help but raise his head to look at Ye Qiu, using his eyes to ask what Ye Qiu meant.
“Show her, after all, she is the mother of the baby and has the right to know what the baby looks like.”Ye Qiu followed and instructed the mother-in-law, saying, “This baby is different from ordinary children, you have to be mentally prepared.”
“Hmm.”The woman in labour softly mumbled.
Li Jiafu wrapped the ghost baby in a sheet and then handed it to the woman in labour.
The woman in labour only looked at it and was terrified.
About ten seconds passed.
The woman in labour’s face returned to normal, then struggled to sit up on the bed, took the baby from Li Jiafu, and asked with tears in her eyes, “Doctor, why did my child grow up like this?”
Ye Qiu didn’t hide it and said, “This is a ghost baby.”
“Ghost baby?”
The woman in labour and her husband didn’t understand.
Ye Qiu then described the formation of several types of ghost babies, briefly, and after hearing it, the mother and her husband were silent.
“Doctor, can this child be raised?”The woman in labour said, “He is my flesh and blood after all.”
“I understand your feelings, however, I remind you that it’s best not to raise it.”Ye Qiu said, “Ghost babies, in the first place, shouldn’t exist in the world.”
“In ancient times, after a ghost baby was born, it would find a Taoist priest or an accomplished monk to end the ghost baby’s life. Ghost babies are born without eyes, and legend has it that, once they survive, they will keep searching for good eyes, which means that they will do a lot of things that will hurt the world.”
“In addition, ghost babies are born inauspicious, and will kill all the relatives and friends around them.”
The maternal face went white.
“So, this child cannot be raised?”The youth asked.
Ye Qiu replied, “My advice is not to raise it, as for whether or not to raise it in the end, you couples have to decide for yourselves.”
The woman in labour and her husband discussed the matter for a while.
Finally, a decision was made.
“Doctor, my wife and I have discussed it, we won’t raise this child, what should we do next?”The youth asked.
“If you’re sure you won’t raise it, fill out an abandonment statement.”
Ye Qiu handed Li Jiafu a look and the latter understood, taking out a declaration of abandonment for the woman in labour and the youth to sign.
“Doctor, I have a request.”The woman in labour pleaded, “Can you let the child go without pain.”
“Yes.”
After Ye Qiu finished speaking, he made his move, quickly pointing a finger at the ghost baby’s brow.
The ghost baby seemed to realise that someone was trying to end his life, and with a “bared” sound, he violently opened his mouth and bit into the back of Ye Qiu’s hand with his fangs.
This sudden turn of events scared everyone.
“Be careful-” Bai Bing exclaimed.
However, Ye Qiu was even faster, backhanding the ghost baby’s face and pressing his finger on its brow.
This finger of his was like a nail, pressing the ghost baby to death.
“Bare-”
The ghost baby grinned with open teeth and a ferocious look on its face.
Ye Qiu’s left hand index and middle fingers were together in a sword point, then he drew a talisman at the ghost baby, reciting words with his mouth.
Half a minute later.
The ghost baby stopped struggling.
Breathing stopped.
It was officially declared dead!
“Wow……” the mother cried loudly and painfully.
Although what was born was a monster, after all, it was her own flesh and blood, and seeing the child die in front of her, the mother broke down.
“Director Li, please arrange for this child to be sent to the morgue.”
“Okay.”
“Then I’ll leave first.”
With the matter settled, Ye Qiu had no need to stay here anymore and turned to leave.
Unexpectedly, just as he walked out of the ward, Li Jiafu chased after him and shouted urgently, “Little Ye-”
Ye Qiu turned around and asked suspiciously, “Director Li, do you have something else?”
“Little Ye, I just want to say sorry to you.”Li Jiafu was a bit embarrassed and said, “Earlier, I also said that you were engaging in feudal superstitions, only when I saw the baby, I realised that I had misunderstood you.”
“This kind of thing, if you don’t see it with your own eyes, it’s hard for the average person to believe it.”Ye Qiu laughed, “Director Li, it’s not your fault.”
“By the way Little Ye, we did a comprehensive examination on the mother and did not find that she was carrying a ghost baby, how did you see that?”
This was something that Li Jiafu was puzzled about.
As we all know, pregnant women would go for maternity checkups every month, especially when they were on the verge of giving birth, they would do a comprehensive checkup.
As for this woman in labour, because of the abdominal pain, Li Jiafu, together with several experts, had examined her.
However, it was not found that the maternal bad was a ghost baby.
This in itself was unreasonable.
So, how did Ye Qiu see it?
Naturally, Ye Qiu wouldn’t tell Li Jiafu that he had opened his Heavenly Eyes and his eyes were able to see through, he smiled and said, “I found out through the Chinese medicine practitioner’s pulse.”
“So that’s how it is.”Li Jiafu came to a realisation, then said with a face full of admiration, “Some time ago, I always heard them say, Xiao Ye, how brilliant your medical skills are, only when I saw it with my own eyes today, I realised that your medical skills are much more brilliant than us experts. Little Ye, you are amazing!”
“You’re being modest, Director Li.”
“Little Ye, in the future, if something tricky like today arises in the obstetrics department, can I ask you for help?”Li Jiafu asked.
“Of course.”Ye Qiu smiled, “We are all doctors, helping each other is supposed to be the right thing to do, and it’s my honour to help Director Li.”
“Hahaha, it’s a deal then. Director Ye, go get busy.”
Li Jiafu stopped addressing Little Ye and directly called up Ye Qiu’s position, which showed that he had already recognised Ye Qiu’s strength.
Just then, Bai Bing came out from inside the ward, glanced at Ye Qiu, and said coldly, “You come with me.”
