Chapter 25: Comparing Luck

Suisui, with her small arms and legs, was held by her Second Aunt, unable to move.

"Why?"

"Suisui, do you want to learn a skill?"

Having subconsciously asked this,

Huo Xing’Er wanted to slap herself.

"Is it like the skill Second Aunt uses to chop pig heads?"

Her big eyes were wide, sparkling with eagerness and curiosity!

"If Suisui works hard, in a few years, you could reach Second Aunt’s level!"

GULP. The little girl audibly swallowed.

"I’ll learn!"

"Good! Second Aunt will teach you right now!"

As Huo Xing’Er spoke, she produced a palm-sized booklet. Sweeping her palm over it, three gleaming gold words appeared: Celestial Observation Skill.

She opened it and read it to Xiaosuisui, sentence by sentence.

As dawn broke, the more Xiaosuisui read, the more energetic she became. She ended up memorizing the entire Celestial Observation Skill.

When Huo Xing’Er left her room, she was utterly dumbfounded.

Why would such an incredibly gifted child be rumored to be the reincarnation of a god of misfortune? A jinxed fate? Although she hadn’t fully divined it, it didn’t seem like that to her at all!

Early in the morning, Madam Ji rose and went to the kitchen, but the stove was still cold.

Strange. Usually, her eldest daughter-in-law would have already gotten up to boil water and do chores. Why wasn’t she up yet today?

Her third daughter-in-law, dressed in black, walked in from outside carrying several wild pheasants. Madam Ji blinked. "What’s this...?"

Zhu Xiuxiu held the few wild pheasants, truly at a loss for words!

"Last night, Second Sister-in-law reminded me that the weather was hot and our pork wouldn’t keep," Zhu Xiuxiu explained, "So, I went to dispose of some according to our old practice. I didn’t expect that after delivering to the last household, I’d pass by our family’s cornfield on the way back. Wild pheasants were nesting there, so I caught them."

Madam Ji listened, dumbfounded. "Your luck seems to have been quite good these past two days!"

She’d found a fat pig yesterday, and now several wild pheasants early this morning.

Wait, she felt like she’d overlooked something.

Ji Youran, who had just come out of his room, overheard his mother and Third Sister-in-law talking about luck. He was thrilled. Ji Youran, always mindful of his reputation, immediately remembered the great treasure he’d obtained by taking a wrong turn! "Finding a few wild pheasants is good luck? Mother, have you read the letter I wrote you? I even encountered ginseng as large as radishes! When it comes to good luck, if I say I’m second, who would dare claim to be first?"

Zhu Xiuxiu said, "Ginseng as big as a radish? Where is it? Second Brother, don’t tell me you couldn’t make it back in time to treat Suisui, so you’re deliberately making things up to make Mother happy?"

While there are rumors of thousand-year-old King Ginsengs in this world, they are incredibly rare and elusive. And their size isn’t usually that large. For one to be comparable to a radish, it would have to be several thousand years old, wouldn’t it? A ginseng several thousand years old would have long since gained sentience. How could Second Brother, that notoriously unlucky fellow, possibly encounter such a thing?

Zhu Xiuxiu had suspected from the very beginning that Ji Youran was exaggerating the size of the ginseng. That was why she retorted without hesitation.

Ji Youran replied, "Hey, Third Sister-in-law, you can doubt my luck, but you can’t question my character. It’s true I returned late and missed the chance to help treat Suisui, but I had my reasons. Besides, when I was finally able to return, what I encountered wasn’t just a ginseng as big as a radish."

Zhu Xiuxiu simply didn’t believe this man, who, for as long as she’d known him, had never had a stroke of good luck.

"You keep saying you found a great treasure, but where is it?" Zhu Xiuxiu pressed. "You still haven’t shown it to us."