Nan Qianqian carried the fish over to Fu Nanxun like a child asking an adult for candy.
Fu Nanxun froze for a moment. His dark eyes unconsciously sized up the person in front of him.
Her watery eyes were shining brightly, her brows curved with her smile, and her fair little face was filled with joy.
His heart tightened slightly.
The words he had prepared earlier to send her away suddenly seemed completely useless.
Seeing that the man remained silent, Nan Qianqian tentatively said, “Fu Nanxun, I won’t go back for now. How about I cook fish soup for you here?”
Nan Qianqian leaned her head closer as she spoke.
She was a little anxious.
She really wanted to break through this awkward barrier between them as soon as possible.
She wanted to get along with him properly.
After all, feelings needed to be cultivated.
But with the way things were between the two of them right now?
Maybe by the time other people’s children were already born, the two of them would still only be staring at each other, with absolutely nothing between them?
“Take it back. I don’t need it.”
The man’s expression suddenly changed.
Nan Qianqian froze.
Although his expression had never exactly been pleasant, just now, he had clearly given her the impression that he was easy to talk to.
She really hadn’t expected the slap in the face to come this quickly.
But after thinking about it, she felt that everything had actually been within expectations.
A person’s attitude couldn’t possibly change that quickly overnight.
After all, the original owner had even dared to smash her head against a wall just to avoid marrying him.
“All right.”
After thinking it through, Nan Qianqian didn’t stubbornly insist.
This man clearly looked like the type who responded better to softness than force.
Fu Nanxun watched the changing expressions on her face, his gaze tightening slightly.
When he caught sight of the still-unhealed mark on her forehead, an inexplicable trace of irritation rose in his heart again.
Seeing that the man was no longer paying attention to her, Nan Qianqian silently hung up the clothes to dry, cleaned the room once more, then packed up her things and prepared to go home.
When she left, the man’s broad back was still turned toward her.
He didn’t make even the slightest sound.
Nan Qianqian pursed her somewhat dry lips.
After giving the man one last deep look, she closed the door behind him.
Then she secretly found a secluded place and put the fish into the space.
Carrying the fish back openly would be far too conspicuous.
It was much safer and more reliable to keep them in the space.
Nan Qianqian leisurely made her way home.
Looking at the scenery along the way, she couldn’t help once again lamenting how difficult rural life in the 1970s was.
Nan Qianqian thought that once she got home, she needed to discuss something with her parents.
She didn’t want to spend every day at home being a freeloader.
She wanted to go earn work points too.
Although her family was slightly better off than most households, there were so many mouths to feed in such a large family.
The amount of food they consumed every day was still considerable.
She felt that since she had now become a member of this family, she had an obligation to contribute alongside everyone else.
To be honest, she truly didn’t have the same kind of carefree mentality as the original owner, who had taken all her family’s kindness toward her for granted.
Kindness had to go both ways.
Once she won over the man, she would start building a career and earning money.
After all, before she succeeded in winning Fu Nanxun over, she didn’t even know what would happen to her fate.
She was afraid that even if she managed to earn money, she might not live long enough to spend it.
The moment she thought about this, Nan Qianqian became troubled again.
Without realizing it, she once again walked onto the deserted hillside where she had gotten lost last time.
She immediately felt speechless.
Was she subconsciously attached to this place or something?
Why had she come here again?
This time, Nan Qianqian decided not to rely on the space to return home.
She had to find her own way back.
Since she had managed to get here, there had to be a road home.
She refused to believe otherwise.
Besides, she was a full-grown adult.
Surely she couldn’t actually get lost?
…
“What the hell is going on?”
Nan Qianqian wiped the sweat from her forehead, her watery eyes looking around at the familiar surroundings.
She was truly speechless beyond words.
She was suddenly beginning to suspect that she might actually be directionally challenged.
Looking at the grass that reached halfway up a person’s body and the unknown trees around her…
She felt like she could probably wander around this place with her eyes closed by now and return to the exact same spot without any difficulty.
Just as Nan Qianqian made up her mind to try one last time, and if that still failed, rely on the space…
While thinking this, she had only just stood up when she heard a rustling sound coming from the nearby grass.
Nan Qianqian’s heart instinctively tightened.
She clenched her palm and nervously took a few steps backward.
But after making a little noise earlier, whatever was in the grass suddenly went silent.
Nan Qianqian immediately became curious.
She gathered her courage.
In order to satisfy the intense curiosity in her heart, she decided to go over and investigate.
With one hand pressed over her chest, Nan Qianqian lightened her footsteps and slowly approached the grass.
She gradually parted the waist-high stalks.
Nan Qianqian’s eyes instantly lit up.
A nest of little chicks?
And they were even standing neatly in rows.
Nan Qianqian couldn’t help counting them.
Exactly five.
Looking at this scene, could it possibly be just like when she caught those fish by the river earlier?
With that thought in mind, Nan Qianqian reached out to test it.
She extended her hand toward the first chick.
The result went far beyond her imagination.
The little chick directly stretched its head into her palm, as though afraid that her hand might slip and fail to catch it.
Nan Qianqian: “…”
This?
Could it be that she hadn’t only obtained a space, but had also gained some kind of koi luck?
She remembered the female protagonists in novels she had read who possessed koi luck.
Not only did everything go smoothly for them, but whatever they wished for in their hearts would eventually come true one by one.
Maybe she could do the same?
Nan Qianqian decided to test it.
Perhaps it really was true.
She thought to herself that if wild chickens could appear so casually, then wouldn’t it be even more exciting if wild boars or rabbits showed up too?
The moment she imagined a sharp-mouthed, tusked wild boar obediently following behind her, Nan Qianqian found herself somewhat amused.
Had transmigrating into a novel made her stupid?
Shaking her head, Nan Qianqian still decided to pack up the wild chicks and return home through the space.
Just as she was about to reach out and catch the wild chicks, she suddenly heard another rustling sound from the nearby woods.
Nan Qianqian’s heart tightened again.
Surely not!
But in the very next second, when she saw the wild boars swaggering toward her, she felt like she was about to wet herself from fright.
And there wasn’t just one of them.
They had even brought their entire family?
At the very front were two large wild boars, one bigger and one smaller.
Judging by the size difference, they were probably one male and one female.
Behind them followed an entire “string” of little ones.
Nan Qianqian instinctively counted them.
There were about twelve piglets.
At this moment, they were also orderly following behind, their short little legs moving slowly as they walked.
Before she had even digested whether this was a surprise or a fright, another entire group emerged from the grass on the other side.
Gray fur, round bodies.
They hopped toward her one after another.
Nan Qianqian stood frozen in place.
Aside from shock, she was still shocked.
She wouldn’t even have dared dream about a situation like this.
This was simply unbelievable.
Looking at the obedient army of animals in front of her, Nan Qianqian became troubled.
She could take the wild chicks home and raise them.
But surely she couldn’t bring the wild boars and rabbits home too?
Wouldn’t that scare her parents to death?
Forget about them.
Even when she imagined that whole group following behind her, the rabbits were still manageable, but those wild boars alone were enough to terrify anyone.
In the end, Nan Qianqian transferred the entire animal army into the space.
She sectioned off an area of forest and released the wild boars and rabbits there to roam freely.
Lowering her eyes to look at the wild chicks beside her, Nan Qianqian decided to stick with her original plan.
She would bring them home.
When Nan Qianqian returned to her room, she poked her head out and looked outside.
Seeing that no one was home, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and took the fish and chicks out of the space.
She put the chicks into the family’s chicken coop and gutted and cleaned all the fish.
Nan Qianqian only took one fish to make fish soup.
She planned to braise the rest.
This meal was extremely sumptuous.
Nan Qianqian took some rice from the supermarket in the space and mixed it into her family’s nearly empty rice jar.
She also took out several jin of pork.
She made braised fish, stir-fried pork with green peppers, and another vegetable dish.
“Mom, hurry and come take a look! Our chicken hatched little chicks!”