As night fell, the carriages became quiet.

He Yushen held Sheng Yueqing's hand and drifted off to sleep.

In his dream, he seemed to return to his childhood.

He was fifteen years old that year, in the prime of his life. He was dark-skinned, thin, and dressed in tattered clothes, looking like a little beggar.

Old Mrs. He disliked that he ate too much, so she called him to work in the fields.

After finishing his work, he was only given a rough cornbread. He wasn't full and wanted to eat another one, but Old Mrs. He scolded him for being a glutton.

He looked longingly at his older brothers, but they pretended not to see him.

Finally, when they were so hungry they couldn't stand it anymore, they had no choice but to go to the river to drink water.

He was so hungry that his stomach ached, and the pain was so intense it was cramping.

But telling his family is useless; no one will feel sorry for him, they'll just call him dramatic.

He was lying on the grass, in so much pain he was about to faint, when suddenly a pair of small hands touched his forehead.

The voice was clear and bright. "You have a fever."

That's a beautiful little fairy.

Unlike the dark-skinned girls in the village, the fairy was exceptionally fair-skinned with a radiant complexion.

She had a warm smile and even gave him his medicine.

I don't know what kind of medicine it is? My stomach pain stopped immediately after taking it.

But he got a leg cramp.

The fairy seemed to notice, and actually stretched out her fair hand to help him stretch his legs.

This is a treatment I've never received even from my own mother.

In the past, when he was sick, his mother would just give him some folk remedies to drink, and whether he would get better or not was up to fate.

This was the first time someone had gently stroked his forehead and wiped away his sweat.

They even gave him some honey water.

The honey water was sweet with a slightly bitter taste, as if it had been mixed with cooling herbs.

I felt much better after drinking it.

When he woke up again, the fairy was gone.

But he now had a steamed bun and a packet of herbs in his hand.

In his daze, he heard the fairy tell him to boil the herbs in water and drink it.

This was the first time someone had ever been so kind to him.

His parents and siblings had never treated him this well.

He took the herbs back to brew them, treating them like precious treasures, but his brothers saw this and tried to steal them.

He was so angry that he beat them all up.

Despite his thin frame, he was incredibly strong, and several of his brothers were beaten so badly that they went to complain to him.

Old Mrs. He started hitting him without asking why, but he gulped down the herbal soup without giving her a single drop.

After that, he would go to the riverbank from time to time to see if he could meet a fairy.

Unfortunately, it seems the fairy doesn't go there often.

Until one day, when he went to the mountains to pick mushrooms, he unexpectedly ran into her again.

She was still so beautiful, and although she was wearing coarse linen clothes, she was clean and tidy.

Those eyes were exceptionally bright, and the skin was incredibly supple; they didn't look like villagers at all.

She was startled when she first saw him.

I thought he was a bad person.

Afraid of startling her, he quickly stepped back, saying, "I..."

The fairy seemed to recognize him and smiled as she said, "Are you better now?"

He Yu's dark face flushed red, and he shyly murmured, "Thank you."

He wanted to give her something to thank her, but found his pockets were empty, which made him a little annoyed.

Knowing that his family was busy working at midday, he immediately ran back to get her some food.

When they returned with the items, the fairy had vanished.

But where he stood, two steamed buns remained.

Those cornbreads tasted especially good; I don't know how she made them.

He Yushen felt that the steamed bun must have been left to him by the fairy.

His heart warmed again.

This was the second time in his life that he had been treated with kindness, and he remembered it for a long time.

Even after he grew up, he would occasionally go up the mountain to scavenge for wild game, but his real purpose was to see if he could run into the fairy again.

Several years later, he actually encountered it again.

The little fairy has grown up, becoming tall and slender, but her temperament has become even more outstanding.

She would come to this mountain forest to collect herbs during the day, but not for long, perhaps because she was afraid of wild animals or bad people in the mountains.

The slightest disturbance would put her on alert.

He could tell she was scared, so he silently stood guard behind her.

He didn't go back until he had escorted her safely home.

It was then that he learned she was a girl from the neighboring Shengjia Village.

Her name is Sheng Yueqing, and she is the eldest daughter of the Sheng family.

However, the Sheng family couple were somewhat biased and didn't treat her well. After the old man of the Sheng family died, Sheng's mother, Zhang Dahua, wouldn't let Sheng Yueqing study and made her start working to earn money at a young age.

Sheng Yueqing was eager to study, so she carried a bamboo basket to the mountains to collect medicinal herbs to sell for money.

She learned herbal medicine from Grandpa Sheng, but she didn't learn much. She only knew a few herbs that pharmacies needed, and she would come to town every year to collect herbs to sell for money.

After selling the goods, half of the money went to the family, and the other half was kept for education.

She would also make her own sugar pills, the kind that are easy for children to take.

Sometimes, people would buy her some pills if their child had a fever and refused to take medicine.

Seeing how beautiful and ambitious she was, He Yushen was immediately motivated.

He wanted to make a lot of money so that the fairy wouldn't have to work so hard.

So he farmed during the day and took on side jobs at night.

Even on holidays, he would go to town to work.

He is strong, honest and hardworking, and can do the work of two or three people. Many bosses like to hire him.

He actually made quite a bit of money.

He thought that when he had money, he could give the fairy a good life.

Unfortunately, a major piece of bad news shattered his dreams.

He heard that the fairy was getting married.

The other party was a wealthy person in the town.

The bride price alone was three hundred yuan.

He carefully calculated the money he had earned over the years, which amounted to three or four hundred, but it all ended up in his mother's pocket.

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