4 Hardships

Memory 04:

After Yin Lan crushed the fruit into the pulp in his mouth, he fed it to baby Yiao Xanran.

But, in less than an hour, she cried again.

The fruits that Yin Lan collected were not many. Also it was midnight. Outside the cave, it was almost dark and it was impossible to collect the fruit.

Inside the cave, the anxious Yin Lan held Yiao Xanran and tried to put her to sleep.

But baby Yiao Xanran seemed to be hungry and the more she cried, the more hungry she became and she continued to cry even more.

In the darkness, Yin Lan's figure seemed to hesitate a bit.

After a few seconds, he slowly put a finger to his mouth, ruthlessly biting into it.

He kept biting until it was dripping with blood.

While the wound on Yin Lan's hand was still dripping blood, he hurriedly put his finger to Yiao Xanran's mouth and used his own blood to feed Yiao Xanran.

Yiao Xanran, who was still a baby, thought of it as a kind of food like milk and drank it with relish.

Looking at Yiao Xanran, who was no longer crying, Yin Lan looked obviously relaxed.

But after a few drops of blood were shed, the wound that Yin Lan had bitten started to heal. this made the hungry baby Yiao Xanran cry again.

Seeing this, Yin Xan gritted his teeth and bit into the wound and continued to feed Yiao Xanran with the blood.

As a result of repeating this many times, and in less than an hour, one of his hands became scarred.

…

Outside the Linglong Treasure Mirror.

Everyone was silent as they were all stunned by little Yin Lan's action.

A six or seven year old child, for the sake of another baby, actually bit into his finger without even frowning and fed the baby his own blood.

"No wonder he will become a heavenly emperor in the future. Just this ruthlessness alone is not comparable to ordinary people."

Hearing this, the hero, Xin Feng, sighed under his breath.

Yiao Xanran on the side looked at her infant self who was feeding on little Yin Lan's blood. Seeing this, even she couldn't help but her body trembled slightly.

After all, this scene was too shocking for her as well.

…

The night passed with great difficulty

By the next day, when the day dawned again, the young Yin Lan, who had been holding baby Yiao Xanran this whole time, obviously seemed to be very tired.

He not only had to feed Yiao Xanran his own blood last night but also had to keep coaxing Yiao Xanran and he barely slept all night.

The only good thing was that it was only after dawn, baby Yiao Xanran finally fell into a deep sleep.

Yin Lan carried baby Yiao Xanran in his arms and continued on the road again.

After last night's incident, he already knew that if he continued to stay there, he was afraid that Yiao Xanran would starve to death. So he needed to find food for Yiao Xanran.

Somehow, Yin Lan and Yiao Xanran managed to get into a nearby village.

Thankfully, those dao-robed people didn't appear, which was a relief to him.

He quietly slipped into the village's sheep shed ,and he milked half a bowl of goat's milk which he fed the goat's milk to baby Yiao Xanran.

Baby Yiao Xanran drank the goat's milk, and was obviously in a much better state than last night.

This made the worry between Yin Lan's eyebrows finally relax a little.

….

A few days after that.

Yin Lan carried baby Yiao Xanran in his arms and hid in the east.

In order to feed Yiao Xanran, young Yin Lan looked for food for her everywhere.

Surely, there was goat's milk and there was even animal milk to feed her but the main thing was of course, human milk.

Yin Lan made an appointment with a woman in labor in a nearby village and accepted the job to hunt rabbits in the nearby mountains, which were all given to this woman.

And the woman would help him feed Yiao Xanran once a day.

Thanks to this maternal milk, baby Yiao Xanran could grow up properly.

But.

Even for an adult who wants to raise a child it was not an easy task, let alone how could a six or seven-year-old Yin Lan manage it?

Even if he was determined, the body was still a child's body after all.

Just in the phase of a year, the originally chubby cheeks have been visibly reduced and his size also didn't grow much.

On the contrary, baby Yiao Xanran grew chubby and was a stark contrast to young Yin Lan.

There were some times when some villagers who knew the two of them, asked young Yin Lan to throw Yiao Xanran away or give her to someone else to raise.

But every time young Yin Lan was stubborn and always shook his head in denial.

He kept mumbling to himself: "This is the last bloodline of Uncle Yiao's family, I must let her grow up healthy so that she has… a peaceful life."

-To be continued!