Chapter V: The Famous Non-Crying Child

Time flowed like water, and the years flew like arrows.

By the time Chen Yun could finally get out of bed and move about freely, time had unconsciously stepped into winter.

In view of all the anomalies surrounding Li Boyang's birth.

Even though the midwife had not revealed the bizarre phenomenon of Li Boyang being born with naturally red hair.

The news that "the Li family's daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby who does not cry" had nevertheless spread far and wide without wings.

Regarding this, the thick-nerved Chen Yun did not mind it at all, and instead with great interest gave Li Boyang the childhood nickname "Non-Crying Child".

As for Li Boyang's formal name for this lifetime?

According to the traditional customs of the Mountain Folk, before a child turned five years old, they were not allowed to have a formal name.

Traditional sayings similar to "humble names make children easy to raise" had also been widely circulated in this world all along.

"Non-Crying Child, you must stay and behave obediently today too, you hear!"

Reaching out to pat Li Boyang who was in the cradle, Chen Yun smiled and gave him these parting instructions.

Clearly she was speaking to an infant not yet a month old, yet Chen Yun acted as if she did not worry at all that the other person might not understand her words.

On the one hand, this was certainly because of all the anomalies before and after Li Boyang's birth.

And on the other hand, it was also because of the intelligence Li Boyang had displayed over this past month.

To tell the truth, Li Boyang had always been puzzled: those transmigrators who became infants after transmigrating, how on earth did they adapt to their identity as infants so quickly?

At any rate, Li Boyang himself could not manage to be as naive, innocent, and throwing tantrums like a real infant.

Aside from his prostate and sphincter which he truly had no way to control, Li Boyang had already started trying his utmost to "seize" control of his body.

"Wah wah wah..."

Pling his hands laboriously toward Chen Yun, Li Boyang had long since grown accustomed to this.

For he knew that Chen Yun was about to go out to the market to buy some daily necessities and bring them back.

For the Li family, which had no elderly relatives to help out at home, this was simply a most normal matter.

Fortunately winter had arrived, and no game could be hunted in the mountains anymore.

Li Yu, as the head of the household, quite naturally took on heavy physical labor such as chopping firewood and tending the fire.

Once spring arrived and Li Yu went hunting in the mountains, this sort of heavy physical labor would fall back onto Chen Yun's shoulders.

Population was productivity; in the agricultural era this was an unchangeable iron rule.

"Yal Our family's Non-Crying Child is just so smart!"

"Later on I'll have Big Girl from next door come and watch over you, you must not make her cry!"

"If you behave, Mother will definitely bring toys back for you later!"

Faced with Chen Yun's solemn promise, Li Boyang this time did not give any response anymore.

Having spent ten months inside Chen Yun's belly after all, he knew his own mother's careless and breezy personality far too well.

Li Boyang did not count on the other person being able to bring back any toys suitable for an infant at all.

On the contrary, regarding the Big Girl that the other person had mentioned, Li Boyang was somewhat curious as to who on earth that was.

"..."

Until he made sure that Chen Yun had truly left, did Li Boyang open his eyes again.

Looking at this crude yet warmth-filled room, Li Boyang could not help but gently let out a sigh.

Li Boyang simply did not dare to imagine, if Chen Yun had not carried him, but instead a truly ordinary infant, how on earth the couple would raise this child?

Leaving a barely month-old infant alone inside a house.

Placed in the twenty-first century, this would simply be an unimaginable matter, right?

Yet in this era, this was a very commonplace affair.

After all, the astonishing infant mortality rate of the agricultural era mostly occurred among children under three years of age.

"Does a human cub know how to sigh this early?"

Lightly leaping down from the roof beam.

A scarlet civet cat was suddenly seen appearing by the side of Li Boyang's cradle.

Carrying curiosity, carrying the implication of probing...

While this civet cat was speaking, it also experimentally extended its claws toward Li Boyang's glabella.

The result was just like every previous test.

Li Boyang directly used his own chubby little hands to swat away the civet cat's claws.

In fact, this was no longer the first intimate contact between this civet cat and Li Boyang.

Over the past month's time, this civet cat always took advantage of when Chen Yun was not paying attention to quietly slip over and observe Li Boyang.

If he hadn't known this was the "Mountain God" who had kept feeding Chen Yun the blood and flesh of all kinds of beasts while she was in the womb,

Li Boyang wouldn't have bothered with this civet cat, who could speak and had a curiosity that was absurdly strong!

"You little brat..."

"If it weren't for me, how could you be what you are now?"

The civet cat first glared at Li Boyang, cheeks puffed in anger, then made a very humanlike face at him.

But after making that face, the civet cat's tone suddenly turned a little sorrowful.

"Kid, something unexpected has happened on my end. I probably won't come see you for a while."

"If I'm still alive next year, could you let me see what your third eye looks like?"

The civet cat's mood changed so quickly that Li Boyang hadn't planned to respond.

But after hearing those words, an ominous feeling suddenly rose in his heart.

It wasn't some kind of intuition. He had heard the unspoken meaning in the civet cat's words.

"Wa?"

He tried to make a sound that expressed a question.

Looking at the civet cat right in front of him, Li Boyang tried hard to figure out whether it had been joking just now.

After all, this civet cat had a truly awful personality.

Sometimes, Li Boyang really couldn't tell whether it was joking or stating a fact.

"Huh? Are you worried about me?"

"Haha, I think this is the first time you've ever made that face!"

The civet cat reached a paw toward Li Boyang again, but this time, the expected swat never came.

"Wa!"

The third eye between his brows slowly opened.

A seriousness unsuited to his age appeared on Li Boyang's little face.

Although he was usually very unhappy with the civet cat's awful personality,

after spending so much time together, Li Boyang had unknowingly come to regard it as a friend.

"Uh..."

The paw reaching toward his brow froze in midair.

The civet cat hesitated for a moment, then finally drew its paw back.

"Mm, I've seen what you look like with your third eye open. Now I have no regrets."

Turning around, the civet cat leaped back onto the roof beam, leaving only a faint echo lingering by Li Boyang's ear.

"If I really die, don't look into the cause of my death, and don't avenge me..."

"I know you can understand what I'm saying."

"Actually, I'm very happy to have made another friend in the final moments of my life!"

Now Li Boyang was finally sure the civet cat hadn't been joking.

But all he could do now was watch the other's departing silhouette.

Confusion, worry, displeasure, and a little frustration were all mixed together...

Li Boyang, affected by the emotions in his heart, didn't notice that his head of red fuzz was burning and fluttering like flames.