Su Ruyi was too young and didn't understand much. She only knew that the beads were good and should be given to her little sister.
The moment the bead touched the little sister's body, her eyes, which had never been opened before, suddenly opened.
His bright black eyes, with almost no whites, startled Su Ruyi.
The little girl waved her two small hands, trying her best to grab the beads.
Seeing this, Su Ruyi hid the bead inside her younger sister's swaddling clothes.
The little sister quieted down, looked at her quietly, and showed her first smile since birth.
From that day on, my little sister's condition improved day by day. Even though she only drank rice water, she quickly became plump and healthy.
Because Su Ruyi usually took care of her younger sister, Guan Yumei didn't discover the agate beads in her younger sister's swaddling clothes until three months later.
She curiously snatched it to show her neighbor.
My neighbor, a well-traveled bourgeois lady who had been through the revolution, immediately recognized it as a fine agate.
After interrogating the whole family and discussing it with the bourgeois young lady, Guan Yumei came to the conclusion that this was something her younger sister was born with; her younger sister was not a jinx, but a lucky star.
Guan Yumei looked at her younger sister and found that she was indeed as cute as a little lucky star—fair-skinned, round, with two big, bright black eyes, and two dimples when she smiled.
Guan Yumei made a tassel for the agate beads and hung it around her younger sister's neck.
From then on, the younger sister's status in the family rose sharply. Guan Yumei named her Su Manao and doted on her as she grew up.
On the very day the bead was given to the younger sister, the white-bearded old man appeared in her dream again. He wept and said to Su Ruyi, "How could you give such a precious thing to someone else, young master? Take it back immediately! It's not too late to take it back now!"
Su Ruyi now knew that the bead was good, but she loved her younger sister and was afraid that her sister would die if she took the bead back, so she did not listen to the old man.
The old man sighed and left, but came back several more times to try and persuade him.
However, the old man seemed to be getting weaker and weaker.
Later, I don't know when it started, the old man never came to visit my dreams again.
Su Manao, who grew up wearing agate beads, has indeed become a true little lucky star—she often finds money when she goes out and can always turn bad luck into good.
However... in her previous life, this younger sister and Su Ruyi were not close.
Although she wasn't openly bullied, the first letter Su Ruyi sent after being sold to a bachelor was later found to have been received by Su Manao, but instead of handing it over to her family, she secretly burned it.
After Su Yin rescued her, Su Manao was summoned for a confrontation.
By then, Su Manao, riding on the coattails of Su Yin's fame, had already become a successful female entrepreneur.
Faced with the questioning, Su Manao, wearing high heels and a business suit, adjusted her gold-rimmed glasses and said with annoyance, "Second sister, why do you always bother others? I was still in school back then, didn't you think about me? If this kind of shameful thing got out of school, how could I face anyone? I was the class monitor back then!"
Su Ruyi was completely heartbroken.
She held out her hand: "Then give me back my beads."
Su Manao quickly clutched the agate pendant hanging around her neck: "You crazy woman, don't even think about taking my treasure!"
...
That agate...
Su Ruyi opened the door and walked into the courtyard, where she immediately saw Su Manao sitting on the threshold, eating malt candy.
—Because he often finds money, Su Manao always gets to eat candy.
At this time, Su Manao was just ten years old.
On her fair and delicate forehead, Su Ruyi seemed to see a faint red glow.
The red agate bead, encased in a matching net, hung around her neck, swaying as she chewed.
Su Ruyi knew that when she went to sleep, she would take the beads off and put them under her pillow—because this habit was something Su Ruyi had helped her develop.
Su Ruyi looked up at the sun; it was almost noon.
At home, she cooks all three meals a day.
She went into the kitchen and saw the sorghum and corn mixture her mother had left in the porcelain basin, and then looked at the cupboard that her mother had locked.
I washed my hands, rolled up my sleeves, and started kneading the dough.
Lunch was a simple mixed noodle dish with a side of homemade pickled vegetables.
Su Dazhi eats lunch in the cafeteria, and his eldest son, Su Jin, who is already interning with his father, also eats there.
Those eating at home were Su Yin and Su Tong's two sons, along with their eldest sister Su Zhenzhu and younger sister Su Manao.
The family sat around the broken dining table in the main room, and after each person found something to prop up the missing leg of the stool, lunch officially began.
The dining table was a bit small, and everyone's elbows were practically bumping into each other.
Su Ruyi glanced at Su Yin.
At this time, Su Yin was already 23 years old, but she was not yet married.
The third son, Su Yin, and the second son, Su Jin, both brought back several girls. But as soon as they saw the Su family's small courtyard, which was so cramped that there was hardly any room to step, the girls would turn around and leave.
In the Su family, apart from the fifth brother Su Tie who got married in the countryside, the other children are still unmarried.
Including the eldest sister, Su Zhenzhu, who is already 25 years old.
However, Su Zhenzhu's situation is different.
Guan Yumei served the rice herself.
She first served Su Yin three large spoonfuls of noodles, and then served Su Tong two large spoonfuls.
When it was Su Manao's turn, she and her companion each scooped out a large spoonful.
When it came to the eldest sister, Su Zhenzhu, there was only a spoonful of noodles with half soup and half water.
After everything was served, there was still a little bit left in the pot, less than half a spoonful, which was almost entirely noodle soup.
Guan Yumei slammed the large iron ladle into the pot with a bang, then glared at Su Ruyi: "Here you go!"
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