[1970s] [Beloved by the Whole Family] [Blessed Baby] [Protecting the Child] [Family Separation] [Clan] [Vicious Mother-in-Law] [Getting Rich]
In the twelfth lunar month of 1970, snow blanketed the Songjiang Brigade. Han Guangshan, who drove a horse cart, dug a baby girl, barely clinging to life, out of a roadside snowdrift.
His wife, Liu Moli, had just suffered a stillbirth. The moment she took the baby, she gritted her teeth and said, "Heaven has given me a daughter after all."
Fubao was born with good fortune, and good things followed wherever she went.
On her very first night in the house, the biased Han matriarch called the baby an ill omen and wanted to throw her out. Liu Moli held the child and blocked the doorway, making a fierce declaration. Han Guangshan summoned the brigade chief that very night, and they banged the table as they divided the family.
They left with nothing and moved into a dilapidated cave dwelling. Three days later, Fubao wailed at the back wall. When they tore down half of it, they found twenty gold bars hidden there by a landlord in the Republican era.
Liu Moli kept her composure and didn't let a single gold bar show. Instead, she earned money openly through her skills at identifying medicinal herbs, pickling vegetables, and weaving straw sandals. Within half a year, they had traded the cave dwelling for a brick house.
The people at the Han family home were green with envy and came calling one after another. Liu Moli served them tea and shot back, "You've severed ties with us, but you still remember where the door is?"
But Fubao's origins were far from simple. The crescent-shaped birthmark on her body led to a shocking secret spanning three provinces...
