"Oh my, oh my, look at this rice! It's all flattened, as if something had pressed it down.
And the grains are shriveled too. They're all damn empty husks."
"The Su family has really had terrible luck lately. I wonder if they offended some Bodhisattva. First their woodshed and the entire woodpile burned down, and now even the rice in their fields has turned out like this."
"I heard the woodshed burned because their eldest daughter was playing inside it and accidentally started a fire. She nearly suffocated in there."
"That's nothing. In my opinion, the most unfortunate thing that happened to their family was forcing the Second Daughter of the first branch out. Otherwise, all that gold would have belonged to them."
"That's right. Their losses this time are huge. I heard that after Xiao Aimin sold the gold, he was able to pay off almost all his debts."
"Heh, they said the Second Daughter was born unlucky and had a hard fate. I think she was born with good fortune instead. Otherwise, how could she have found so much gold just by touching around?"
"Exactly. Old Lady Su and her eldest daughter, Baozhu, spent several days feeling around in the river, but they couldn't even find a trace of gold dust.
They weren't nearly as capable as Third Brother Liu's dark-skinned daughter, who helped her father find indicator sand and locate gold in one go."
Someone noticed Su Baozhu by the edge of the field. She was dressed cleanly and brightly, and was disdainfully wiping mud off her leather shoes with Coarse Paper. They couldn't help rolling their eyes.
"Second Daughter can even find gold while fishing. If we're talking about a jinx, who knows who it really is!"
"After Second Daughter left, the Su family started suffering