The best thing about living in the countryside was not needing to set an alarm.
Almost every rural household kept a few chickens, and every day, the roosters crowed right on time.
Lang Ling had just stepped out of the Cowshed. His current body was still young. Although he had been sent down here along with his grandfather, the local Brigade Leader had not really mistreated them.
Recently, he had been assigned to cut grass for the pigs. At first, he could not tell which kinds the pigs could eat. Fortunately, the other village children had helped him out. After a few days, he had gotten the hang of it.
"Big Brother, have you had breakfast? I brought these wild vegetable pancakes from home. Here, have some."
Wang Cuicui appeared out of nowhere, staring at Lang Ling with sparkling eyes.
At the sight of those eyes, the Peace Amulet Lang Ling wore against his skin began to grow faintly hot.
He remembered Luoshui warning him that whenever the talisman paper grew hot, danger was approaching, and he needed to stay away.
Wang Cuicui assumed that since Lang Ling lived in the shabby Cowshed every day, he would never be able to resist the wild vegetable pancakes she offered.
What nobody knew was that Wang Cuicui could actually see other people's luck.
Now, the villagers avoided her like the god of pestilence.
Yesterday, she had gone to play with her former friends, but they had walked away as soon as they spotted her, afraid she would set her sights on them.
She had been trudging dejectedly down the road with her head lowered when she suddenly saw a dense mass of purple pass in front of her.
Following that purple qi with her eyes, she realized it belonged to the boy