Chapter 47: "A Billion Points of Bad Luck"

"Lili, are you full?" Lu Baozhen's childish voice echoed in the quiet "new" room.

There was a big red wedding character pasted on the earthen wall. The bed was also red, and was covered with a quilt with a dragon and phoenix pattern. The quilt looked like it had been used many times and had patches on it.

The little girl sat cross-legged on the bed, with two pigtails and wearing a bright red cotton round-necked sweater.

She is talking to her hands.

"No." Black Koi spoke, also in a childish voice, like a child of five or six years old, but it was impossible to tell whether it was a boy or a girl.

"What should we do then?" Lu Baozhen's little face wrinkled into a ball, looking worried.

"Go find Gu Dazai and Gu Erzai." Black Koi said, "If you are accepted by any of them, I can give you everything you want."

In order to impress the naive human cub, it used a bewitching tone: "Pile of White Rabbit candies, countless skirts, beautiful hairpins, whatever you want, I'll give you."

Lu Baozhen wants them all.

But.

She hung her head and pouted, "Big Brother and Second Brother just ignored me."

The black koi choked.

To encourage the human cub: "You work hard."

Lu Baozhen didn't understand, so she rested her chin on her hand and asked in confusion, "Why are you working so hard?"

The mark on her knuckles trembled continuously, which greatly stimulated the carp.

It's really hard to communicate with human cubs.

"Take the initiative to play with them."

Lu Baozhen lowered her head even more, feeling sad and wanting to cry, she said aggrievedly: "Big brother and second brother ran away when they saw me, I couldn't catch up with them."

The black koi was silent.

Lu Baozhen didn't want to disappoint her good friend, so she said, "Can't you just rely on my stepmother's luck?"

"..."

After tonight, your stepmother's forehead will turn black. What luck will she have?

"Your stepmother is going to become an unlucky person. She is useless." Black Koi said these creepy words in a sweet and soft childish voice.

It added: "The luckiest people in the whole village are the people from the third branch of the Gu family. You must become friends with them, otherwise you will lose all the sweet candies, beautiful dresses, and hairpins."

Lu Baozhen lowered her head and looked at her fingers, her voice tinged with tears: "But I don't know what to do."

Black Koi had no patience to coax the child and threatened: "If you can't do it, I will find another friend."

After saying that, he went invisible.

"Carp!" Lu Baozhen shouted.

No one answered.

After a while, she wiped her tears and sobbed, "I will become friends with the eldest brother and the second brother, Lili can only be friends with me."

The black koi was very satisfied and his figure flashed by.

In a flash, a White Rabbit milk candy appeared in front of Lu Baozhen.

"It's a White Rabbit!" Lu Baozhen's watery eyes showed surprise.

She shouted excitedly, "Carp."

The black koi didn't respond, but Lu Baozhen became more determined to make friends with the eldest and second koi and help the koi find "food".

Thinking of the miserable appearance of Gu's mother, the little girl didn't feel scared, but giggled out loud.

If you don't satisfy her wishes, you will be punished.

"Thank you for helping me vent my anger."

It's about how Gu's mother refused to teach her a lesson.

Black Koi said softly: "We are good friends."

He said the softest and cutest words with his little black mouth wide open.

Ahhhhh, food.

Lin Zhao didn't know all this, but after she woke up, she realized how evil Lu Baozhen was - she was the typical example of those who obey me will prosper, and those who disobey me will perish.

Whoever makes her unhappy will be unlucky.

What Lin Zhao found strange was how Lu Baozhen could bring misfortune to people who disliked her?

The eldest child was learning to read with his mother. He asked a question but no one answered. He looked up and saw his mother was in a daze. He put down the card and asked, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

"Son, do you know who your grandma met before she was injured? Or did she talk to anyone?" Lin Zhao originally wanted to ask Gu's mother another day, but he couldn't control his curiosity.

and.

With such a dangerous person secretly watching her, she could never calm down.

The eldest son thought carefully, and when he saw the second son stealing the spicy strips, he confiscated them directly, his eyebrows and eyes serious: "Second son, mother is asking questions, you should think about it too."

Erzai was a child who was good at multitasking. He ate the spicy strips secretly and didn't ignore his mother. He knew what Lin Zhaogang had asked.

He quickly stuffed the spicy strips he had just taken out into his mouth and sucked his hands hard.

"If mother wanted to know, why didn't she ask me earlier? I know." He said crisply.

Lin Zhao's expression brightened, "Hurry up and tell me."

Erzai said, "It's Lu Baozhen."

It's really her! !

Lin Zhao's eyes flashed with understanding, and then asked, "Did your grandma tell you?"

"Someone saw it." said Erzai.

A trace of disdain appeared on his fair and tender little face, "Mom, do you think Lu Baozhen looks like the unlucky star that her mom said, that people who get close to her will be unlucky?"

Lin Zhao: “Hmm?”

Why did she remember that the original book said that Lu Baozhen was a treasure who could bring good luck to people.

How come you become a jinx to Erzai? !

Erzai puffed up his cheeks and said angrily, "Whether she is a jinx or not, I hate her!"

"It must be her who caused my milk to bleed! I hate her so much!" Erzai felt that Lu Baozhen caused Gu's mother to be injured, and he hated her so much.

"Not really..." Fearing that the two kids were superstitious, Lin Zhao wanted to explain a few more words, but was interrupted by the talkative Erzi.

The little guy hummed twice before continuing, "She asked my grandma why my brother and I didn't go to her house, and asked if she could play with us. My grandma knew that my brother and I didn't like playing with her, so she said we could do it another day, and then my grandma fell."

At this point, Erzai sighed heavily and felt uncomfortable wanting to eat another spicy strip.

"It would be better if I followed my grandma. If I followed her, she would definitely not fall."

As a real man, he will definitely protect his grandmother.

Lin Zhao sensed something was wrong.

She asked thoughtfully, "Wait, you said, she asked your grandma if she could play with you guys?"

The eldest child said, "That's what my grandma said! I remember it too!"

"Mom, is there something wrong?"

That's not right!

This is so wrong!

If the children in the village want to find friends to play with, they just go there directly. Why would they bother asking their parents if it is possible?

Strange.

How strange.

Lin Zhao's mind was working rapidly, and she suddenly realized something, her eyes lit up surprisingly.

Could it be that she wanted to get something from the eldest and second sons, and the threshold was... Gu's mother's promise?

This guess was a bit outrageous, but Lin Zhao thought it was very reasonable. Since she had a big roulette wheel, it was not surprising that Lu Baozhen had such strange opportunities.

This makes some of the outrageous plots in the original book make sense.

"Mom?" The eldest boy tilted his head and called out to his mother.

Lin Zhao gave her eldest son a fierce look and said cheerfully, "You really helped me a lot."

The eldest boy’s fair and tender face was tinged with blush. Oh, mother really likes him.

Lin Zhao turned her head and saw Erzai's greasy little hand touching the open mouth of the spicy strips again.

"Gu Erzai!"

There is no child who is not afraid of his parents calling him by his full name.

Erzai quickly retracted his hand, sat up straight, and looked away, at the ceiling, the bed, the cabinet, but not at his mother.

"..." You have clearly played the trick of trying to cover up your own mistakes.

"You can't eat today." Lin Zhao confiscated the spicy strips and glared at Erzai, "Especially you, Gu Erzai, if your throat hurts, you will be in trouble. Don't cry when the time comes."

At this moment, Erzai thought that spicy strips were the most delicious thing in the world. The little guy licked his lips, hissed twice, and spoke in a soft voice like a spoiled child.

"I'm not afraid of a sore throat, Mom, please let me eat one more, please~~"

"Take back your coquettishness! It's useless!" Lin Zhao refused with a smile, sealed the remaining half of the spicy strips, and gave it to the eldest son: "Big son, we agreed that you and your brother would each have half, and the second son would eat half. The remaining half is yours. It's time to go to bed. Eat it tomorrow, okay?"

The eldest child accepted it and smiled: "Okay, thank you, mom."

Lin Zhao touched his head and said, "Go wash up with your brother and go to bed."

Erzai and his brother walked out of the house with their heads down. Their tiny backs somehow revealed a sense of pity.

The five-and-a-half-year-old greedy child felt regret for the first time in his life. He felt sad just thinking about not having spicy strips to eat tomorrow.

“Hmm, hmm, hmm!!”

Lin Zhao went out to the toilet and heard these three heavy, emotionless sobs. She was so confused that she didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

If you can't cry, then stop crying.

She went to the toilet, trying not to laugh.

The eldest child glanced at his mother's disappearing figure, took his brother's hand, and whispered, "We'll eat together tomorrow."

Seeing that Erzai was about to speak, he quickly raised his index finger, put it to his lips, and made a hushing sound.

The second child imitated his brother's behavior and laughed until his eyes were bright. He also whispered, "Thank you, brother. I'll just eat one."

He looked like he was regretting his decision, "I will never be greedy again."

"Yes." The eldest child said, "You must listen to your mother and don't make her angry."

"hold head high."

-

The next day, Lin Zhao sent her children to the old house and rode her bike to work.

Not long after she left, the Lu family became bustling.

Yuan Bao ran to the Gu family's old house and called out, "Twins, there's something going on, do you want to go and see it?"

The second child loves to join in the fun. He sneaks out of the house so fast that the soles of his sandals are about to send sparks.

A few steps away from the door, Yuan Bao said, "Today's fun is provided by the Lu family. Come on, let's go and grab a seat, otherwise we won't be able to compete with those adults."

Hearing this, Erzai squeezed his legs together and slammed on the brakes. The soles of his shoes slid half a meter away on the mud. His body tilted forward, and his arms swung like a windmill, stretching himself into a slanted candied haws stick.

He stood up suddenly.

Waved to Yuanbao.

"You go ahead. I'm not going."

Yuanbao was surprised: "Why?"

"Pah!" Erzai imitated the old man at the entrance of the village and said, "The Lu family caused my grandma to be injured and bleed. We have a grudge against their family, so we don't want to watch their fun."

"...Okay." Yuanbao said disappointedly.

Eager to see the excitement, he ran away quickly, shouting as he ran: "Wait, Erzai, I'll tell you after I finish watching!"

Erzai stood on tiptoe and waved vigorously: "I'll wait for you."

At this time, the Lu family.

Su Yuxian sat on the ground in a mess, holding her bleeding foot, her hair disheveled, staring at her condescending sister-in-law, her eyes full of humiliation.

"What are you looking at! You vicious woman, my brother shouldn't have married you. On the first day after you got married, you want to starve your parents-in-law, sister-in-law and Baozhen to death. You have such a vicious heart!" Aunt Lu started to put the blame on Su Yuxian.

Mother Lu clapped her legs and sang a big opera, then cried to the sky.

"I have a miserable life. Each daughter-in-law I marry is worse than the last. The previous one was a sickly girl, and the current one was fine before she got married, but she started throwing plates and bowls the first time she got married."

He picked up the broken pieces of the porcelain bowl with pain in his heart, tears streaming down his face.

"There are only a few bowls in the house, and two were broken this morning. How are we going to eat without bowls from now on..."

Her singing, reciting, acting and fighting were so funny that the neighbors of the Lu family couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

It instantly attracted everyone's attention.

The young man scratched his head and offered an idea: "It's not that they can't eat it. One person can finish it and then the other can eat it. It's the same, the same."

Having said this, he quietly turned his head away.

Su Yuxian also felt wronged, "I didn't do it on purpose. Would I deliberately break the bowl?"

"That's not necessarily true!" Aunt Lu hugged her chest, her cheekbones were high and sharp, and her eyes flashed from time to time. She looked difficult to get along with.

"Maybe you didn't want to cook and broke the bowl on purpose."

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She looked at Lu Yizhou and stamped her feet angrily, "Brother, look at the woman you married. She dared to ruin the family on her first day. Divorce her now!"

"Shut up!" Lu Yizhou scolded.

He was a soldier and knew more than the villagers. He knew that the word "rest" was a feudal remnant and should not be used.

"What's the point of taking a break? This is a new society." Lu Yizhou said in a deep voice.

Then he picked up Su Yuxian by the waist and put him on the stool.

"This is your sister-in-law, please restrain yourself." He looked at his younger sister with a warning look.

Su Yuxian looked at Lu Yizhou, her face full of emotion, and she pretended to be generous, "Yizhou, I'm fine, I was just careless, this is all my fault, I didn't hold the bowl and chopsticks properly."

Aunt Lu was very angry and gritted her teeth and said, "Why are you pretending? It was your fault in the first place."

Her mother said that the new bowls in the family were to be given to her as a dowry. If Su Yuxian broke two, she would have to take out two new ones, so she would lose two.

Thinking of this, Aunt Lu wanted to skin Su Yuxian alive.

Dowry is a girl’s confidence!

Su Yuxian lowered his head, like a punching bag.

Those who were watching the fun not only watched, but also muttered and expressed their opinions.

"Yuxian's sister-in-law is really powerful. She will have a hard time in the future."

"What's wrong with Yuxian? Did she really not do it on purpose? I've never heard of her breaking a bowl in the Su family before."

"The Lu family boy is good. He treats his wife well. He is indeed a good young man who has gone out. I heard that he became an officer. Yuxian is blessed."

…

The villagers didn't know how to keep their voices down. They seemed to be whispering to each other, but in fact their voices were quite loud.

Su Yuxian heard something vaguely and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Before she could finish her laugh, she heard the person closest to her say, "Isn't this girl from the Su family a bit unlucky?"

As soon as these words were spoken, there was a moment of silence in the area centered around the captain's wife.

Everyone looked at her with expressions that indicated they wanted to hear something.

"Yesterday she got married, and Yuanshan's mother was injured and went back home in a miserable state. Last night on their wedding night, she hit her foot with a kitchen knife, and I heard that her toes were almost cut off. Today, she broke a few bowls again..." The captain's wife was cracking the peeled pumpkin seeds, her face full of excitement as if she knew a secret.

"Whose new bride is so unlucky? This one is probably the first in the whole commune."

Others thought what she said made sense, it seemed so.

"The Su family's daughter is really unlucky."

Another person said, "It's okay. Baozhen is lucky. I heard that she can pick up money when she walks on the road. It shouldn't be a big deal if the Su family's daughter has bad luck."

Having said that.

With a "bang!"

The stool that Su Yuxian was sitting on exploded into pieces. She fell to the ground with a sharp wail.

"ah……!!"

The onlookers looked at each other in bewilderment.

It seems like I'm a bit unlucky.

(End of this chapter)