In 1978, a “little jinx” arrived in Kaoshantun.
Six-year-old Lin Xiaoyu’s father was a missing special forces soldier, and her mother was a researcher who vanished in an explosion.
She was dumped at her second uncle’s home, where her aunt called her a “jinx who brings misfortune to her family.”
Every day, she drank the thinnest porridge, did the hardest work, and suffered the cruelest beatings.
The villagers all said, “That girl won’t live through the winter.”
But strange things kept happening, one after another
When her aunt cut her food rations, the family’s hen stopped laying eggs for three days.
When the village bully stole her basket of wild greens, he fell into a manure pit on his way out.
But the old village secretary, who secretly gave her roasted sweet potatoes, dug an irrigation canal and uncovered a spring that saved the village from drought.
Whispers gradually spread through the village:
“That child must be a lucky koi reborn…”
Xiaoyu didn’t know she really did have the “fortune of a lucky koi.”
Those who treated her kindly enjoyed bountiful harvests and thriving livestock.
Those who mistreated her stumbled as they walked and found trouble at every turn.
Then one day, her aunt tried to sell her to a neighboring village in exchange for a bride price
The matchmaker ran into one misfortune after another, and the marriage fell through.
Officials from the county came to investigate the mystery of her parents’ disappearance.
Only then did Xiaoyu discover in a secret letter her mother had left behind that her parents might both still be alive, and that their disappearance concealed a shocking secret…
Years later, Kaoshantun became the richest village in the county.
The villagers all said, “We owe it all to little Xiaoyu, our lucky treasure!”
Only Xiaoyu knew that the two people she was waiting for still hadn’t come home.
But she wasn’t in a hurry.
She had already made this land bloom with the flowers her parents had most wanted to see.
[Raising a lucky koi child] x [Striving through a bygone era] x [A mystery and a search for family]
See how a six-year-old lucky koi, with her innocent heart, brings blessings to the land and warmth to everyone around her.
In the hardest of times, she brews the sweetest warmth.
