Chapter 208: New Year
A child who is pretty and looks like they have good fortune is someone people will want to gain fortune from.
After the first person boldly used candy to exchange for a pet-its-hand gesture of gaining fortune, more and more people crowded around.
Then, inexplicably, a long line formed in front of Yun Jiao.
“Little fortune treasure, you are so well-behaved, how can you be so good-looking and have so much good fortune?”
“May the weather be favorable next year.”
“May there be an abundant harvest at sea next year.”
“Bless my daughter-in-law to give birth to a big fat boy.”
Yun Jiao: …
No, are you guys mistaken!
Yun Linhai wiped the sweat from his forehead: “Move aside, everyone, move aside. This is my daughter, not some little immortal child. Let us pass, we’re going home to eat.”
Yun Linhe shouted at the people lining up behind: “Oh my, those in the back, stop queuing. This isn’t some event, why are you blindly queuing!”
Wang Mei slapped her thigh: “I say, Auntie, whether your daughter-in-law has a big fat boy really doesn’t concern my Jiaojiao!”
Yun Jiao, holding a pile of things, most of them food, looked bewildered.
After finally squeezing through the crowd with her family, they breathed a sigh of relief.
They looked at each other and all burst into laughter.
Granny Yun laughed until tears streamed from her eyes.
“Oh my, I didn’t expect it to turn out like this today. This shows that our Jiaojiao is really similar to that little immortal child.”
Shen Yunlian looked at her daughter, dressed in red; she looked beautiful.
Yun Jiao pouted a little unhappily: “My hands and face have been pinched so many times.”
Of course, those people also controlled the strength of their pinches.
“Goodness, you can’t even hold all that.”
Yun Jiao had pastries, biscuits, fried dough twists, a small bag of sunflower seeds, soda, and brown sugar mantou among other food items in her arms.
Her arms were full.
Yun Jiao directly distributed them to her family to eat.
This was what she exchanged for with her ‘beauty’, so she ate them with a clear conscience.
“I didn’t expect our Jiaojiao to receive so much food just by standing there.”
The family walked back, chatting and laughing.
Passing the village mouth, they saw the little fool strolling at the village mouth.
It was the village guardian, holding a sweet potato and eating it.
Granny Yun exclaimed: “Yun Sui, why is he wandering around in such cold weather, and dressed so thinly.”
“Yun Sui, where is your grandpa?”
Yun Sui had an intellectual disability, similar in intelligence to Yun Xiaowu but at the level of a two or three-year-old child.
“Grandpa, grandpa is sleeping.”
His mouth was dirty from eating the sweet potato, and he gave them a silly smile.
He had chilblains on his hands and feet, which were red and swollen, but he seemed oblivious to it.
Granny Yun sighed: “Eldest, take Yun Sui home to wash up and find him some old clothes from Xiaowu’s. Old Second, you go check on his grandpa, at his age, something might have happened.”
“Okay.”
The two responded.
The adults in the village, thinking Yun Sui was the village guardian, would often give him some food when they encountered him.
However, the children didn’t have that understanding; they just thought Yun Sui was foolish and had no one to protect him, so they often bullied him.
Yun Sui’s family consisted only of him and his elderly grandpa; in this weather, if something happened to the elder at home, it wouldn’t be easily known.
Yun Jiao saw him happily following them and handed him an egg cake she was holding.
Yun Sui tilted his head, his nostrils twitching slightly. Upon realizing it was food, he happily took it.
“Delicious.”
Granny Yun felt very sorry for the child: “Yes, it’s delicious, eat more.”
In the past, their family had poor conditions and couldn’t help this child much.
Now that conditions are better, they should help as much as they can.
After returning home, Yun Linhai bathed Yun Sui, and Yun Linhe hurried back.
“That old man is sick, lying in bed with a burning fever. Dad, go borrow a cart from the village chief. I’ll carry the old man over.”
Hearing this, Old Master Yun immediately stood up: “Alright.”
Meanwhile, on Yun Linhai’s side, Yun Sui’s hair was messy, long, and tangled, with lice jumping around.
Yun Linhai simply shaved off all his hair and burned it.
After washing him twice, he finally cleaned him up and put on Yun Xiaowu’s old clothes.
He was thin and small due to malnutrition, so Yun Xiaowu’s old clothes fit him just right.
When he came out, Yun Jiao stared intently at his bumpy, bald head.
“Ew… this hairstyle is so ugly.”
The disdain in her eyes was obvious.
Yun Linhai rubbed his nose: “I just cut it randomly.”
He wasn’t a professional hairdresser.
To be honest, after being cleaned up, Yun Sui’s face was quite delicate and good-looking, just a bit foolish all over.
At this moment, he had clam oil applied to his hands and feet, and was sitting at the doorway holding the egg cake Yun Jiao gave him, spacing out.
“Yun Sui, your grandpa is sick and has been taken to the hospital, so you’ll stay at my house for now.”
Granny Yun called out to Yun Sui, who was spacing out at the doorway: “Come inside to warm yourself by the fire, aren’t you cold sitting outside.”
Yun Sui seemed to be startled awake, suddenly stood up, and ran outside.
“Grandpa, Grandpa…”
“Hey, where are you running off to, you little brat?!”
Yun Linhai, quick with his hands, chased him for over ten steps and caught him.
Unexpectedly, the previously quiet, foolish child suddenly struggled violently, shouting “Grandpa” incessantly.
“Your grandpa is sick and has been taken to the hospital.”
“Give this to Grandpa, give Grandpa the cake to eat.”
Yun Linhai sighed. Although a bit foolish, this child was quite filial.
He knew to save the good things for his grandpa to eat.
No matter what Yun Linhai said, the child insisted on running outside and was making a commotion.
Yun Jiao got impatient and walked over and gave Yun Sui a beating.
Yun Linhai: …
My goodness, is my Jiaojiao this hot-tempered?
“Quiet!”
After beating him, Yun Jiao glared fiercely and shouted, and Yun Sui actually quieted down.
He looked at her with wronged and somewhat fearful eyes.
Yun Jiao pointed inside the house: “Go in and warm yourself by the fire.”
Yun Sui said pitifully: “Grandpa.”
Yun Jiao: “Idiot, I already told you your grandpa is sick and went to the doctor.”
“If you’re not good, I won’t let you see your grandpa.”
Very well, Yun Sui was threatened.
Head down, like a scolded dog, he glanced at Yun Jiao with his floppy airplane ears before walking into the house.
Yun Xiaowu and the others applauded: “Sister, you’re amazing!”
“Dad, you’re so useless, you’re not as good as sister even though you’re so big.”
Yun Linhai: ( anger symbol )
You stinky kid, your hide is itching!
Seeing that her Jiaojiao could handle Yun Sui, Granny Yun admonished: “Jiaojiao, keep an eye on him.”
They still had to cook; this New Year’s Eve dinner had to be abundant no matter what.
Yun Jiao nodded: “Got it.”
Yun Jiao played with the puppy while keeping an eye on Yun Sui.
She saw him holding an egg cake, staring at it, his saliva almost flowing out, yet he held back from eating it. She was impressed by this fool.
He could actually resist the temptation of delicacies!
