[Story Elements: A widow returns to her village, everyday life raising a child, dealing with awful relatives, lying flat and getting rich, a lucky daughter]
One couple, with everyday child-rearing at the heart of the story and a light romantic thread. (The main story is ongoing.)
In the autumn of 1966, Lin Zhixia’s husband dies, and she returns to her village with her five-year-old daughter, Xiaoyu, to sponge off her parents.
The villagers are all waiting to laugh at her. The Lin family is famous throughout the village for being lazy! How can this pretty widow, who can barely lift a finger, get by with a little burden in tow?
Lin Zhixia says, “What’s there to panic about? I have money (my late husband’s inheritance), looks (I was born beautiful), and a secret weapon: my own daughter, blessed with unbeatable luck!”
They go up the mountain to gather wild greens, and her daughter points casually: a hundred-year-old wild ginseng!
They stop to rest by a rock, and her daughter digs with her little hands: a spirit jade pendant from her past life!
They slack off and take a nap, and her daughter lets out a howl: a plump wild chicken comes crashing right to their door!
The village busybodies try to scheme against her? Lin Zhixia chuckles. “When I was fighting for power in the Jia household in my past life, your great-grandfathers hadn’t even been born yet!”
Watch as this lazy widow and her lucky daughter lie flat and get rich in an era of shortages, turning their lives into something wonderful!
A seemingly delicate but secretly cunning, lazy and laid-back mom versus a daughter with incredible luck, devoted to keeping her mom well-fed.
Raising a child + everyday life + dealing with awful relatives: the whole point is to live comfortably and quietly make a fortune.
This is an anti-routine period novel. The author uses humorous writing to create Lin Zhixia, a unique heroine who is "too lazy to be assertive". She brought her daughter back to the village with a clear goal - to grow old. However, she relied on the wisdom accumulated in her previous life and a little bit of luck from the fish to make the country life prosperous. The language of the novel is vivid and lively, and the characters are vivid on the page. Whether it is the shrewd Chen Xiulan, the brother and sister-in-law who have their own thoughts, or the daughter Xiao Yuer who is a "living lucky charm", they are all memorable. In an era when collectivism was prevalent, the heroine's "selfishness" and her endless tricks of self-interest, as well as the endless tricks of house fighting, constitute a strong dramatic tension and a pleasure to read. In addition to making people laugh, they also have a new definition of "laziness" - this is a life philosophy that needs to be supported by wisdom.