Li Cai smiled and nodded, a doting smile appearing on his weathered face: "Okay, I'll buy you some shortbread, one piece a day."

Goubao danced with joy, shouting, "Candy, eat candy, sweet candy!"

After settling Goubao in, Li Cai headed towards the village. Not long after, a thatched house in the village caught fire. Many people saw the burning thatched house and hurriedly fetched water to put it out. But after saving one house, another one caught fire as well.

Someone with a keen eye noticed: "It looks like a madman's house."

"Then forget it, it's best to burn it down. If there's no house to live in, let's see what that wretched woman does then?"

The others watched with amusement, refusing to help put out the fire, waiting for Li Cai's thatched hut to burn down and for them to have nowhere to go.

As I watched, the rooftops and courtyards of seven or eight houses in the village caught fire.

Those who were watching the spectacle, seeing their own woodpile and thatched hut burning, forgot about the excitement and rushed to put out the fire, looking quite disheveled.

The fire was too big to be put out in time. All they could do was slap their thighs, cry and wail, and there was nothing they could do but jump up and down as their houses burned down.

It was at this moment that Li Cai went against the advice of those who were putting out the fire.

While they rushed back to salvage their belongings and house, she excitedly ran along the path, avoiding the gazes of those people, until she found her obedient dog, Bao, waiting patiently in place. Her weathered face held a longing for a bright future and freedom.

Li Cai pulled Gou Bao's hand: "Come on, let's go find Uncle Radish!"

"Yes!" Goubao nodded, and as he left, he glanced at the village and shouted excitedly, "The village is on fire, it's smoking!"

Li Cai, holding Gou Bao's hand, didn't turn her head and said, "It's okay, it won't burn us."