On the way to escape, the Zhou family picked up a little girl who couldn't speak next to a pile of dead people.
The Zhou family was so poor that they only had half a bag of chaff left, and their three sons were so hungry that their eyes glowed green. Others advised Zhou's mother to throw away the extra mouth. But Zhou's mother fed her the last mouthful of rice soup: "Since you call me mother, you are my daughter."
No one expected that the Zhou family's luck would suddenly change after the little girl came in.
She grabbed Zhou's father's clothes, and the Zhou family avoided the refugee road ahead; she squatted by the dry well and refused to walk, and clear water seeped out from the bottom of the well that night; she pointed to a barren slope, and the Zhou family actually dug out life-saving yams.
Until the day when officers and soldiers surrounded the village, the little girl who had been silent suddenly said: "The mountains to the east will collapse."
Half an hour later, rocks rolled down, blocking the pursuers.
Only then did the Zhou family realize that it wasn't that she couldn't speak, but that she didn't dare to speak. Because the first words she says every day will become true that day.
From refugees fleeing famine to thousands of acres of fertile land, from broken pots in thatched huts to a house full of beautiful things, the Zhou family is getting more and more prosperous. But the Qintian Supervisor of the imperial court also focused on this little girl who could "determine good or bad luck."
