A Little Lucky Girl in the Splendid Countryside

By the Xishui River lived a family with the surname Ruo, whose luck was so terrible it was as if they were cursed. When every other family had a bumper harvest, the Ruo family got nothing. Insects devoured their vegetables, their chickens caught a plague, and their pigs came down with swine fever... Though their house was full of grown men, every one of them was strong and able-bodied, yet some went mad, some became disabled, and some went blind... The Ruo family, once destined for great things, ended up the poorest household within ten miles. The one thing people envied was how many sons the family had! The old Mrs. Ruo had six sons, and her sons had four boys of their own. She dreamed of having a girl. At long last, she got a granddaughter, only to find the child was an idiot. Even at over three years old, she couldn’t talk or walk, and couldn’t even eat, drink, or use the toilet by herself. Everyone thought the Ruo family would never get back on its feet. Then, one day, the three-and-a-half-year-old girl suddenly opened her mouth and called out, “Mama...” The heavens began to change. The world began to turn fantastical. The persimmons in the Ruo family courtyard ripened overnight. The vegetables in the fields, nearly eaten bare by bugs, turned lush and green. Their old hen, which had never laid an egg, suddenly started laying... While others went hungry, the Ruo family’s granaries overflowed. The eldest son was no longer mad, the second was no longer disabled, and the third was no longer blind... The old Mrs. Ruo planted her hands on her hips and laughed up at the sky. “Who says my Xuan Bao is an idiot? She’s clearly a lucky treasure!” (This is a farming novel with a touch of the supernatural. In her previous life, the heroine was a daylily that had just gained a spirit, and she was reincarnated as a human.)