Chapter 36: The Lucky Child

Lowering his gaze to Leng You, Hu Liu understood.

Although he had been helping Leng You sell goods, Leng You had never cheated him. Moreover, he also received a commission from the buyers, so in the past month or so, Leng You had indeed made him a considerable profit.

“There’s another roe deer in the bag outside,” Leng You added.

“Another one?” Hu Liu was stunned.

Such a generous gift made him feel uneasy.

“There are two roe deer in the bag outside. The bigger one is for you, and the other is for Uncle Dazui.

There are also five silly half-grown chickens, also for Uncle Dazui.”

Leng You clearly explained the distribution of the gifts.

After several transactions, she understood that although Liu Dazui was ugly and somewhat boastful, he was extremely kind and honest, and he didn’t bully her and the others because they were young. He conducted business with them fairly and squarely.

Although the relationship between her and Hu Liu and Liu Dazui was a mutually beneficial business relationship, Leng You was still grateful for their honesty.

She could also feel Hu Liu and Liu Dazui’s genuine affection for her, but the heart, as hard as a glacier, formed by the coldness, harsh treatment, and loneliness she had encountered in her past life, could not be thawed even a little, even with a hint of longing for precious warmth.

“This girl, this girl, you’ve given too much,” Hu Liu didn’t know what to say, his heart melted into a puddle of mush, and he was so overwhelmed he felt lost.

Such a small child, yet she knew to give him gifts. And the best and most generous gift was for him.

He was so moved he wanted to beat up his four sons who had angered him that morning.

Liu Dazui was soon called over by his eldest son. He was even more surprised that Leng You would come to give him a New Year’s gift. His mouth stretched to a record-breaking length.

“How can this be appropriate, hehe… it’s really inappropriate!

Thank you, Youyou girl, for thinking of Uncle Dazui. Here… this is for you.”

Liu Dazui was already in his thirties. Because his family was poor and he was ugly, he only married a widow after making some money in the past two years from doing business secretly. But for some reason, the couple still had no children.

So when he saw the clever and special Leng You, he liked her very much. And because this little girl remembered him, he was so moved that he almost cried.

When he heard from his eldest son that Leng You was giving them New Year’s gifts, he was overwhelmed.

When he saw the large roe deer and the silly half-grown chickens on the ground, he was even more surprised.

Indeed, in this era of extreme material scarcity, these could definitely be considered rare and generous gifts.

Although Liu Dazui was in this line of business, having just bought a house, he wasn’t very well-off, and his wife was thrifty, so she wasn’t willing to eat these things that could be sold.

However, when he went out, his wife still prepared a large bag of candies, sweets, and several cans of canned food.

Liu Dazui stuffed this large bag of things into Leng You’s arms.

“Thank you, Uncle Dazui!” Leng You didn’t refuse.

Leng You and Xiang Wentian didn’t stay long. When they left, Hu Liu forcefully stuffed them with another large bag of things, which contained candies, sweets, and a large grass carp weighing more than twenty kilograms.

They were also going to buy some peanuts and melon seeds, but Hu Liu and Liu Dazui gave them a lot, so they didn’t need to delay any longer and went straight back to Daheishan Village.

When they got home, Wen Jiuyue was busy in the kitchen frying roe deer meatballs. This had never happened before; firstly, they didn’t have that much meat, and secondly, they didn’t have that much oil.

A few days ago, Leng You and Xiang Wentian brought back more than forty kilograms of peanut oil and told Wen Jiuyue to use it freely, and they would buy more in the county town when it ran out.

In the past fifty years, Wen Jiuyue had never eaten peanut oil before. Eating rapeseed oil a few times a year was already considered a luxury.

This year was the most abundant and luxurious Spring Festival she had ever experienced. Although she was busy almost non-stop, she was full of energy.

Seeing Leng You and the others bring back another large fish weighing more than twenty kilograms, saying it was a gift, the corners of her mouth turned up.

For her, receiving such a large fish as a gift during this special festival was a very auspicious event.

Leng You and Xiang Wentian had bought some fish before, but they were all small. With such a large fish, she simply put the smaller ones away.

Leng You and Xiang Wentian wanted to help, but she firmly refused. She felt that the two children had been too tired these days, and she wanted them to have a good rest during the Spring Festival.

The two exchanged glances and turned to the deep valley.

In the coldest and most difficult month of the year in Daheishan Village, the temperature at the bottom of the valley was like a warm April day. Leng You and Xiang Wentian wished they could stay there all day.

Today they didn’t need to hunt or dig herbs, so Xiang Wentian focused on teaching Leng You self-defense techniques.

They didn’t go back up to the village until dinner time.

As usual, when they didn’t have to carry goods, Xiang Wentian directly carried Leng You.

After the initial discomfort, at this moment, Leng You felt the most secure and relaxed. She lay limply on Xiang Wentian’s chest, even swinging her little short legs leisurely.

The setting sun shone on the young man. The young man’s strong arms tightly held the little girl in his arms. The soft little body leaned tightly against his chest in infinite trust, so tightly that their two hearts could feel each other’s vitality.

The little girl’s head nestled in the young man’s neck. As they walked, her soft hair occasionally brushed against the young man’s neck, tingling, numb, and itchy, accompanied by the pleasant milky scent and the faint scent of grape blossoms. The young man’s heart had never been so gentle and calm.

In a moment, the setting sun became even brighter, coating the two figures, big and small, with a thick halo, as if to completely integrate them together, forever inseparable, unable to be separated.

…

Amidst the sporadic firecrackers, Leng You welcomed her first New Year after her rebirth, a New Year that broke away from the trajectory of her past life.

Wen Jiuyue got up early and dressed Leng You like a lucky child.

Her slightly smoother and longer but still slightly yellow hair was tied into two small pigtails by Wen Jiuyue with two red hair ties (which Xiang Wentian had bought at some point), and the extra part was left to hang down.

She wore a newly made cotton-padded jacket and trousers, with a set of dark red corduroy clothes on the outside. A gray rabbit carrying a large green radish was embroidered on the lapel.

She wore cotton shoes made of rabbit fur, with the same rabbit pattern as on the lapel embroidered on the red corduroy uppers.

Although Wen Jiuyue bought a two-foot square mirror, Leng You still couldn’t muster the courage to admire her “unique” look in the mirror.

But she didn’t miss the twitch in Xiang Wentian’s mouth when he saw her for the first time.