Chapter 15

How is that possible? A blessing from the heavens?

“I’m so thirsty. Let me tell you more after drinking some water.” Liu Guimei deliberately kept them in suspense.

Old Mrs Fu and Mdm Fu looked at each other and decided not to ask further.

Whether she said it or not, they wouldn’t care.

Let’s see who’ll be the first to break the silence.

Liu Guimei had initially thought that they would be very interested and ask her many questions, but nobody asked anything even after waiting for a long time. She felt bored.

“Grandma, Mother, why aren’t you curious at all?”

“You’ll tell me when you want to,” Mdm Fu replied lazily.

They knew very well that the more curious they appeared, the more mug she would become.

They knew her too well.

Liu Guimei couldn’t stand staying silent any longer and said, ” On our way to town, we saw someone being robbed. We couldn’t just ignore it.

Disregarding the danger, Daxing and Erxing stepped forward to help and got into a fight with those bad guys, while I shouted for people to come over to help… After a long time, we finally succeeded in saving the victims.”

Liu Guimei spoke with gusto and beamed excitedly.

There were definitely elements of exaggeration.

Having been long-time farmers, her two sons were physically strong. However, it was still dangerous to confront danger like that. Old Mrs Fu spoke, “In the future, get them to assess the situation and not act rashly. They have to think carefully.”

It was good to help others, but they should also consider their own safety.

They have an old mother and young children to care for.

If anything happened to them, what would happen to the entire family?

“That’s what I said.”

Sticking your nose into others’ business might cost you your life.

But none of them listened to her.

She was furious.

Fortunately, they picked the right business to stick their nose into this time.

She noticed that despite her extremely exciting recount, she was fetching minimal reaction from her audience.

It was necessary to emphasize her contribution again.

“Mother, you guys don’t know how much danger we were in back then. There were 10 of them, and we only had three. They all looked ruthless and cruel, and each of them carried gigantic knives… If not for my quick thinking and success in deceiving them, we could have all died in their hands.”

Liu Guimei gestured energetically, painting the scene as gory and terrifying. She even brought in snippets of the scripts she had heard from the street performers previously.

She made herself sound great.

After finishing her sentences, she patted her heart and said with a tone of lingering fear, “My heart beats so fast at the mention of this. Mother, I think I will need to eat two eggs later to calm my heart.”

She seemed to have forgotten that she was the one who was most unwilling to be involved in the incident, and also the one who fled the fastest.

It was a fact that Daxing and Erxing acted bravely to help the person who was robbed. As for Liu Guimei, she was afraid of trouble and had fled faster than anyone else.

Fu Daxing said that he was unable to just stand and do nothing, so he went forward to help. Liu Guimei had hung onto Fu Erxing tightly, refusing to let him go forward too. However, Fu Erxing couldn’t stand seeing his brother fight the bad guys alone. He thus broke free from her and went over to help too.

Fortunately, the two brothers were smart enough to scare the bad guys away eventually.

Liu Guimei had to be wise after the event, and twisted the story such that she had gone to get reinforcements for the two brothers.

Old Mrs Fu and Mdm Fu finally heard the main point after painstakingly listening to her blabber on and on.

They only believed 30% of what Liu Guimei had said.

They would just listen and take it with a pinch of salt.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been so calm.

Saving someone was a fact.

But it was not that dangerous.

As for whether she had helped or not, they knew her too well to know the answer.

When it comes to good things like food, she would be the first to arrive at the scene. On the other hand, when it comes to troublesome matters, she would flee faster than anyone else.

She was only interested in saving her own neck.

“So these are the things that the victim gifted you as a form of gratitude?”

“Yes, yes, yes. The victim we saved was a minister in town. His name is Minister Wang, and his family is in the ceramic business.

Due to a conflict of interest in the business matters, his rivals sent those bad guys to teach him a lesson.

After Minister Wang was saved, in order to express his gratitude to the two brothers, he bought all the pigeons and firewood that we were selling and even offered a high price.

He also gave us the food that we brought back, as I mentioned that it has gotten too late for us to buy dinner.

Mother, look at how smart I am.”

Liu Guimei kept emphasizing her contribution again.

If it weren’t for her, who knows how much money they would have to spend on these foods. She had saved the family a lot of money.

They should reward her more.

Mdm Fu pretended not to understand her underlying request.

She did not want her to be too cocky.

“None of the men in our Fu family are cowards. Daxing and Erxing did the right thing. See, good things do happen to good people.”

Old Mrs Fu counted on her fingers. “That meant we earned in total three silver taels and 200 copper coins, and even some additional food. I haven’t seen so much money at home in a long time. I want to take a look.”

Mdm Fu rubbed her palms. Liu Guimei had no choice but to take out the money.

“Mother, you could check.”

The money was still carrying the warmth from her pocket. If only they belong to her.

However, she could only think.

Half of it was a result of her contributions. Shouldn’t she be given some?

She was daydreaming happily.

She deserved to get at least 500 copper coins.

Mdm Fu counted and gave them to Old Mrs Fu. She said, “Mother, why don’t you help to safe-keep these?”

Being entrusted with a responsibility like this might prolong her remaining days.

“No, no, no. I don’t want to do it. You are the one taking charge of this family now, so you’ll do it. I’ll just sit back, relax and eat.”

After being in charge for so many years, she was exhausted.

In the past, when she was young, she would want to take charge of every matter in the household. This had caused her multiple conflicts with her daughter-in-law.

Thinking back, she felt that it wasn’t a wise choice.

She might have had the energy to live a few more years if she hadn’t worried so much about everything.

Liu Guimei stared at the money eagerly, wishing that she could put them in her pocket.

Mdm Fu stored away the money together with the silver ingot that Old Mrs Fu had given her a while ago. Her hands were trembling with excitement.

This was the first time that she had this much money in her hands. She suddenly felt that there was more in life to look forward to.

Liu Guimei stood and waited for a long time till her legs were sore.

“Mother, Xiaoma has been urging me to buy him school supplies recently. You see, I don’t have much…”

If they didn’t offer to give it to her, she would have to take the initiative to ask for it.

Just now, she had noticed that there was a gold lock around Fu Xing’er’s neck. As for the silver ingot, it must have been given by Grandma.

Even her grandsons did not receive such treatment, but her granddaughter did.

How biased.

If Grandma had already adored her like this, her parents would definitely not be any better.

Perhaps everything in this family would be given to Fu Xing’er in the future.

It was understandable. She was the only girl in the family and adored by the whole family. It was not impossible for such a thing to happen in the future.

She had to make plans for her son, Xiaoma.

“Go! Call your elder sister-in-law and the rest in.” Mdm Fu pulled a long face.

“Yes, Mother, I’ll go now.”

Needless to say, they were going to split the money now.

Liu Guimei ran faster than anyone else. “Daxing, Xinghua, Erxing, come in quickly. Mother has something to say.”

Mdm Fu knew very well what Liu Guimei was thinking about.

Before this, even when the family was poor, they had never mistreated Liu Guimei and her Xiaoma.

Now that the family had a little money, they would definitely get their share too.

She did not understand why Liu Guimei had to be so scheming all the time.

“Second Daughter-in-law, haven’t you noticed? Ever since our Fubao was born, our Fu family seems to be getting more and more lucky. I think that our Fu family is about to welcome better days.” Old Mrs Fu looked at Fu Xing’er who was lying on the bed. This premonition was especially strong.

Mdm Fu didn’t think so at first, but Old Mrs Fu added, “Think of that deserted place on the mountain. The pigeons didn’t fall in front of any other person, but right in front of Daxing and Erxing. It’s obvious that it was a blessing directed at us. Also, isn’t Erxing’s recovery time from his illness getting shorter? And the things that happened to the three of them on their way to town today… I think it’s all because of the luck that Fubao is bringing us.”

“It does really seem so.”

Their Fu family had always been unlucky. Luck had never been a part of their lives.