Winter in the north is always very cold, especially at night.
Most of the families in Qingshan Village had gone to bed early, except for Lao Fu's family, where a kerosene lamp was still dimly lit, illuminating Fu Manshan's dark and rough old face with a yellow, oily sheen.
"Old woman, have you really thought it through?" Fu Manshan squatted on the kang, knocking on the unlit pipe in his hand, and said with a melancholy tone, "Bao'er...ah..."
Jiang Fengxia lay on the kang, tucking in the quilt for her frail granddaughter. "I've made up my mind. Bao'er will be raised in our house from now on. I can't watch my own granddaughter being sold to someone else!"
"Bao'er is such a miserable girl, having such parents. Alas, it's all my fault that I, Fu Manshan, failed to discipline this evil creature," Fu Manshan habitually tapped his pipe again. "Well, no matter how hard things are for us, we have to raise Bao'er. Tomorrow I'll go to the secretary and ask if he can get his daughter-in-law to feed our Bao'er some milk."
As soon as Fu Baoer regained consciousness, she heard this conversation. She did not open her eyes, but carefully felt everything around her.
In her previous life, she was a koi fish, so everyone gave her face and called her the Koi Fairy. In fact, she was just a monster who had practiced Taoism for thousands of years.
Fu Baoer was lucky. As the only koi fish that had reached the Leaping Dragon Gate level in thousands of years, her own abilities were still very strong. However, at the last moment, the saying in the world of immortal cultivation came true: Anyone who creates something will inevitably encounter a great disaster.
Who would have thought that behind the Dragon Gate stood a real, glittering golden dragon! When it saw Fu Baoer leaping over, it opened its huge mouth and swallowed her whole.
The belly of a true dragon is connected to the entire universe, and anyone who enters has no chance of survival.
Before his death, Fu Baoer was still thinking that when the carp leaps over the Dragon Gate, it might not be the gate that it jumps over, it could also be the big teeth of the real dragon!
But now it seems that God has mercy on her and given her another chance to be reborn. Fu Baoer is a heartless person. After realizing this, she fell asleep again.
There's no way, she's too weak now!
That night, the three members of the Fu family, grandparents and grandchildren, each had a bizarre dream...
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"Old man! Quick! Quick, quick, catch it!" Jiang Fengxia lay on the kang, her hands darting around in the air. "It's huge! What a huge carp!"
Fu Manshan's blanket was completely thrown off by Jiang Fengxia's commotion. He was shivering with cold. "Old woman, wake up quickly! Are you dreaming?"
Jiang Fengxia was also woken up by the cold at this time. She sat up suddenly from the bed. Seeing that her granddaughter was still sleeping beside her, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Fu Manshan and Jiang Fengxia looked at each other. Their relationship as husband and wife had gone through countless ups and downs for many years, but at this moment, their tacit understanding reached an unprecedented level.
"Old man, you dreamed..."
"Old woman, you dreamt..."
The two of them burst out laughing, and finally Jiang Fengxia spoke first, "Let me tell you, I just dreamed that our Baoer was swimming naked in the water, diving into the water, and then throwing a carp out, and he was still giggling..."
Fu Manshan dreamed something different.
Thinking of the immortal-looking old man with a white beard holding his granddaughter in his dream, Fu Manshan shook his head and said, "Old woman, our Bao'er might really be a lucky star. I dreamed of an immortal who said Bao'er was... the reincarnation of a koi fish, and could bring good fortune to our family. The immortal told me to treat our Bao'er well."
Jiang Fengxia looked at her granddaughter lovingly, and said firmly to Fu Manshan, "Even if there is no immortal to come in your dream, we still have to love Bao'er. The old Fu family has no shortage of children and grandchildren, but as an old woman, I only love our Bao'er."
Fu Manshan held his old wife in his arms, feeling a pang of sadness in his heart. He had suffered a lot in his life to raise three sons and a daughter.
The eldest son was capable and married a girl from the city, taking over his father-in-law's job. From then on, he no longer recognized his relatives in the village, nor his own parents. The second and third sons stayed at home to farm, got married, had their own little thoughts, and became estranged from their parents. The youngest daughter got married at the beginning of the year and lived far away from home. The old couple was worried but could do nothing.
Yesterday, the third brother was so heartless that he wanted to sell Fu Baoer, who was just three months old, to human traffickers!
What sins did Fu Manshan commit in his previous life that he has three such unfilial sons?
Fu Baoer opened her eyes wide and looked at the old couple hugging each other. She had just woken up and heard their dream. It seemed that God really had mercy on her and let her come to the world to enjoy happiness.
It turned out that not only the two elders of the Fu family had a dream, but Fu Baoer also dreamed of a magical scene. The immortal grandfather touched her little head and said that he had brought the blessed land and fortune buff of the Koi clan to her. She would be a carefree mortal in this life, and when she died of old age, she would return to heaven to get a small official position.
When Fu Baoer thought of this, she couldn't help but grin. As long as her paradise was there, she would have no worries about having a good life.
"Look at this silly girl, she's still smiling," Jiang Fengxia found her granddaughter had woken up and picked her up. "You'll probably suffer a lot following your grandparents in the future. Let's see if you can still smile!"
Fu Baoer looked at his grandmother's haggard face and thought, how could she let us suffer when I, the Koi Fairy, am here!
"Old lady, hold Bao'er and lie down for a while. I'm going to the secretary's house."
Fu Manshan put on his clothes, braved the cold wind, and went to the home of Secretary Chen Zhifang not far away.
Chen Zhifang is a good secretary. He is about the same age as Fu Manshan and they are old acquaintances. When he heard the purpose of the visit, he did not refuse, but said frankly that his daughter-in-law had no milk and was worried about how to feed his granddaughter.
The two old men sighed and squatted by the doorstep smoking their pipes.
Wrong decisions made by the higher authorities have made life difficult for the people. Production has only just begun to resume in the past two years. People used to eat from the same pot, but now they have to cook from scratch again. Everyone is in a very tight situation.
If you don’t have enough to eat and enough clothes to wear, it would be strange if you can have milk after giving birth.
Fu Manshan walked home dejectedly, wondering where to get some milk, or maybe find some food to nourish Chen Zhifang's daughter-in-law.
As for his third daughter-in-law, Fumanshan didn't even have to think about it. This bad woman would rather ruin her than let her own daughter drink a sip of milk. He didn't know what she was thinking.
As soon as he turned the corner, Fu Manshan saw the door of his house was opened. He had a bad feeling in his heart and quickened his pace to run home.
Sure enough, his disappointing third son and daughter-in-law were trying to snatch the child from Jiang Fengxia with ferocious looks on their faces!
Poor granddaughter’s little hands were frozen red in the cold winter!
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