God's Gift

Lu Keming was putting a bag on Yu Youyou's back. When he heard her question, he stopped and stared at the bag, which was not very pretty. He was silent for a while and replied:

"I found it in the storage space. I don't know when it was put there."

"Oh oh." Yu Youyou responded, turned her head to look at the bag on her back, happily ran to the mirror in the room, turned around several times in front of the mirror, and her tail shook like a propeller.

"It's really beautiful." Yu Youyou ran to Lu Keming's feet happily, circled around his feet several times with joy, and said, "Thank you, Lu Keming!"

"You're welcome." Lu Keming leaned against the door. When he heard her words, his eyes sparkled and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

Yu Youyou circled around Lu Keming, and then ran to the cabinet where she kept her things. She bit the hinges to open the cabinet, looked at the little treasure she had hidden inside, and said to Lu Keming:

"Lu Keming, can you help me put these in?"

Lu Keming walked over and saw what was stored in the cabinet.

Some colorful candies and leftover candy wrappers, a few dried fruits, two small green stones, and a pile of melon seeds.

Lu Keming sighed, squatted down, opened the bag on Yu Youyou's back, took out everything in the cabinet and put it in her bag.

Yu Youyou nodded with satisfaction, then ran out of the house with her bag on her back, showing off to everyone.

Lu Keming looked at her back, raised his hand to cover his eyes, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise. He followed Yu Youyou and walked to the gate of the courtyard.

It was the time when students were getting out of class. Because of the memorial ceremony, there were fewer students in the school. Only some boys and younger girls were walking on the road together.

Those students seemed to have learned a new song at school and sang it as they walked. Grandma Li sat at the door and listened to them singing several times and then hummed along herself.

Yu Youyou ran to Grandma Li's feet with her schoolbag on her back, nudged Grandma Li's hand with her nose, looked at Grandma Li with her bright eyes, and stuck out her tongue happily.

Granny Li then noticed the backpack on her body, looked at Lu Keming who was walking behind her, laughed cheerfully twice, tapped her nose, and said:

"You little dog, you are very lucky."

Yu Youyou wagged her tail happily twice. Granny Li smiled so much that her eyes narrowed into slits and patted her on the back.

Two more boys walked by, still singing the song. Their voices were childish and filled with the innocent joy of children.

"Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass reaches the sky..."

Granny Li listened to them singing and shook her head. She called the two boys over and asked, "What song is this? Why do you all sing it?"

"This is the song that Teacher Chen taught us. He will be leaving in two days, and this is a song about the farewell to a friend." The boy's voice was still a bit childish. He stood obediently in front of Granny Li and answered her question.

Hearing the boy's words, Granny Li was a little confused. "Teacher Chen still has two months before leaving. How can you say you're leaving in two days?"

The little boy shook his head. "I don't know either. Teacher Chen told us today that he will be leaving in two days."

"Is that so..." Granny Li nodded and said, "He was a bad teacher. It's better for him to leave."

"No way!" The little boy shook his head seriously after hearing what Grandma Li said. "Teacher Chen is not a bad teacher. Teacher Chen is very nice. He is never mean to me and even gives me eggs to eat. He is the best teacher!"

"Yes, Teacher Chen is a good teacher!" The boy next to him also echoed.

Granny Li listened to the two boys and didn't say much. She just smiled and said, "Since you think he is a good teacher, then he is a good teacher."

"Go home quickly, it's time for dinner."

The two boys then said goodbye to Granny Li and turned to walk towards home.

Granny Li looked at the boy's happy back and sighed.

Lu Keming stood at the door, looking at Grandma Li's expression, and said nothing.

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Fang Ziang walked out of the house and saw Lu Keming and Yu Youyou at the door. He also walked to the door, looked outside, and asked in a low voice:

"Isn't today just the fourth day after the Buddha Worship Festival? Didn't Ah Chou and Chen Qingqiu quarrel on the fifth day?"

Lu Keming turned his head, glanced at Fang Ziang, then shifted his gaze away indifferently without paying any attention to Fang Ziang.

Seeing that Lu Keming ignored him, Fang Ziang didn't say anything. He turned his head and looked outside, just in time to see Song Wenshan, a member of the White Dove group.

"Song Wenshan, what are you going to do?" Fang Ziang called out to Song Wenshan and asked him to come over.

Song Wenshan glanced at Fang Ziang, walked towards them, and glanced at Grandma Li who was sitting next to them.

From the look in his eyes, Granny Li knew that the young men had something to say, so she also took the stool and went back into the house.

Song Wenshan then spoke up, "Something went wrong with the villagers' sacrifice. The two girls who were scheduled to be sacrificed today were secretly sent away by their parents. The clan leader discovered that they were missing when he was trying to recruit people today."

Hearing Song Wenshan's words, Lu Keming, who was still looking at Yu Youyou, suddenly looked at him without changing his expression.

Song Wenshan did not notice Lu Keming's gaze and continued to talk to Fang Ziang:

"Those two girls must have been sent away a long time ago, and the tribe leader was very angry. But this village holds a sacrifice every fourteen years, and the girls for the sacrifice must be at least fourteen years old. There are not many girls of the right age to begin with, and this time two of them ran away, and the village can't find other girls to replace them."

"If there's no one, forget it. Aren't so many people enough?" Fang Ziang snorted, and then asked Song Wenshan: "How do you know so much? How did you get into the sacrificial team?"

Song Wenshan looked embarrassed, "This is my mission, I have no choice but to do it."

"Then you still need to help them find two suitable girls?" Fang Ziang frowned tightly, looking a little unhappy. "It's just a task, you don't have to complete it."

Song Wenshan looked a little embarrassed: "The tasks of each trial are related to the final assessment. I am different from you. For you, it is not important whether the tasks can be completed or not, and the grades are not important either."

"But I finally got into Songbird Academy, and I failed in my last mission. This trial is extremely important to me."

Hearing Song Wenshan say this, Fang Ziang was also somewhat speechless and asked, "Then what are you going to do?"

Song Wenshan hesitated for a while and replied, "We can only find other girls in the village to replace her."