The beloved baby has a space

Chapter 80 Lucky Baby

"What nonsense are you talking about? How old is Ayu? How would she know someone fell into the well!"

Old Liu looked at Liu Dashi with some dissatisfaction, "How do you teach children all day?"

“It really is Sister Ayu. She saw us and let us pass.”

Xinghua usually doesn't dare to talk to her grandfather, but now that he suspects she's lying, she feels wronged.

The other children in the family quickly chimed in, "Yes, it's little sister Ayu."

"We are not lying."

Old Liu then looked at Little Ayu.

The child was so small; he was afraid of frightening him. A stiff smile appeared on his lips, and he asked slowly, in a curt voice, "Did you call that?"

Little Ayu nodded obediently: "Yes."

She wanted to say that it was the fairy who told her, but Liu patted her head and said with a smile, "Father, it was probably Ayu who saw it. This child has been different since she was little, and she brings good fortune to those around her."

With Old Man Liu's "I'm not listening to your nonsense" expression, Mrs. Liu continued, "It's probably because she's had good fortune that her health isn't very robust, so we didn't dare let her go out. She's been better this year, so we brought her here to see you."

This also aligns with what Wang Chuanman said earlier.

The couple were not good at lying. Before they came, Grandma Wang had told them several times to remember the lie before letting them go.

Liu and Old Madam Wang had discussed this several times before and agreed on this approach for Ayu.

In order to make Ayu's identity more legitimate, Liu wanted to lay a good foundation with the Liu family, so that they would believe that Ayu had been her child from the beginning.

Grandma Wang would then make arrangements with the village chief, clan elders, and others in Hujia Village to ensure that everyone would speak with one voice and not give others any reason to criticize them.

It was just that Ayu was behaving rather unusually. Liu didn't understand any grand principles; she only knew that the fewer people who doubted Ayu's identity, the more she could keep this somewhat different child.

"Yes, yes, our Ayu has always been very lucky. The reason our village was able to escape so many disasters this time is all thanks to her. Before, when the snow collapsed, if we hadn't gone to find Ayu, we would all have been buried in the snow, and who knows how many people would have died!"

Following Old Lady Wang's instructions, Wang Chuanman omitted the story of the giant python and the snakes, emphasizing instead that Ayu had saved the entire village, including an adult, which enabled their village to receive disaster relief grain.

“The grain we are offering to you is from the imperial court. Without the disaster relief grain from the imperial court, our family would still be starving,” Wang Chuanman said.

Old Liu looked at Xiao Ayu with a mixture of belief and doubt, but the rest of the family members were already seeing Xiao Ayu differently.

Qin struggled to get up from the hospital bed and sat down beside him. Hearing this, her eyes were filled with relief.

She said, "I was thinking that you've been with the Wang family for three years and only given birth to one daughter. I was afraid the Wang family would give you a hard time. But now it seems that this daughter you gave birth to is even better than your son. If the Wang family has any conscience, they certainly wouldn't have bullied you."

These words were spoken in front of Wang Chuanman, who immediately said in a panic, "Mother, what you said makes your son-in-law too ashamed! Our Wang family is short of daughters. My brothers are very envious. I am also very grateful to Wan Niang for giving birth to Ayu for me."

He spoke with such sincerity that the Liu family took it as the truth.

Only Liu knew that she hadn't given birth to a child in the three years she had been with the Wang family, but no one in the Wang family spoke ill of her behind her back.

No one pressured her to have children.

Some people in Hujia Village had said a few things about it, but his mother-in-law shut them all down, and gradually everyone stopped talking about it.

"Father, Mother, my husband treats me very well, you don't need to worry," Liu said softly.

Since it was true, Old Man Liu looked at Little Ayu with a bit more thought.

He stared at Xiao Ayu for a while, then went back into the house. When he came out again, he had a lucky charm in his hand. He tossed it onto the table and patted it with his palm: "This thing takes up space at home. Take it, take it or leave it!"

Liu picked it up.

Her sister-in-law, Yang, whispered to her, "This was something Mother prayed for at Yuanhua Temple before the New Year. None of the rest of the family had it, but she saved it for you. She had a nightmare about you having a difficult childbirth, and she was worried about it, so she went up the mountain that night to pray for it."

I've been so busy, and Qin Shi fell ill again, so I haven't been able to send out the peace charms yet.

Yang was once a little jealous of her younger sister. The Liu family had three daughters in total. The first two were married off, and one of them was beaten to death by her husband's family before they found out. The other was in the next village.

The family was somewhat worried about the marriage prospects of their youngest daughter.

Da Shi and Er Shi were both very good to Xiao Mei and cared about her a lot. Yang Shi saw this a lot and felt a little uncomfortable.

Later, due to financial difficulties, Liu silently accepted the ten catties of grain given by the matchmaker and married herself off in a daze.

Besides the food, she also left behind all the dowry her parents-in-law had prepared, and went alone to a village dozens of miles away.

That's when her opinion of the younger sister changed.

Unlike the adults, the children in the family looked at Xiao Ayu with sparkling eyes.

Especially the six-year-old dog head, whose dark hands immediately covered Xiao Ayu's hands and rubbed them vigorously, saying, "Little sister, little sister, you're lucky, give me some, then I'll never lose when I play water skimming with others again!"

Xinghua pulled his dirty hands away and said irritably, "Your hands are black and smelly. Don't get your sister's hands dirty."

Little Ayu found it quite amusing, giggling as she asked, "Brother Dog Head, what is walking on water?"

Dog Head said, "It's just about throwing stones into the water and seeing how many water bowls will rise. The best wood in the village can throw a long string of stones! I can throw eleven, and Wood can throw more than twenty!"

Because he loves playing on the water and doesn't know how to count, Dog Head was tricked several times.

Later, he specifically sought out an adult who could count and learned to count. In just two days, he was able to count to one hundred.

He is now the child with the most children in the village.

"We can't take you to the water now, otherwise I would have taken you to see the water floaters." Dog Head said with some regret.

“Let’s go play beanbag toss,” Pear Blossom suggested. “Right here in the yard.”

"Yeah!"

The children rushed into the yard to play, and they surrounded little Ayu, teaching her how to play.

The adults saw them in the yard, told them not to go out, and then ignored them.

The incident of falling into the water has been explained, and there's also the matter of repaying the money.

In front of her brother and sister-in-law, Liu took out the silver again: "When I went home the year before last, I borrowed one tael of silver from my family. At that time, I really had no other choice. Now that things are better at home, I quickly brought it to pay back. Mother-in-law's idea is that since the family has borrowed it for two years, they should also give some interest, one tael of silver, plus 100 copper coins."

One hundred copper coins are not much, but they are carrying a whole tael of silver, which is worth more than the few pieces of silver they borrowed before.

Old Liu was stunned when he saw the one tael of silver that his youngest daughter took out.

Then, his face turned a deep purplish-red, and he slammed his fist on the table, making a loud thud: "So, you want to settle accounts with your own father, even if you're your own brother? Do you think I need your few coins?!"

Just then, someone outside the courtyard called out, "Is Uncle Wang home? The village chief wants all of you to come over, and your daughter's family too."

(End of this chapter)