Everyone Wants to Pamper the Lucky Daughter

Chapter 20: The Clam

Translator: Vicky_

“It’s getting late. Go home quickly. Your wife must have prepared a big meal for you.”

When the village head heard Su Hu’s words, he became very happy. He smiled at Su Hu and asked him to go home quickly.

“Okay. See you around.”

Su Hu was so happy. He said goodbye to the village head and walked quickly. He couldn’t wait to share the good news with his family.

“Hey, you are back.”

Li Xiu’e had already prepared the food. She was fanning herself while waiting at the gate for her husband and children to return home after school. Looking at the familiar figure from a distance walking over, she opened the fence door and welcomed the man into the yard.

“Hey, Xiu’e, I’ve got good news. Qiaoqiao can study in the county in the future.”

Su Hu took off the basket and put it in the yard. He saw the clam in the big water tank with just a glance. He was stunned. After a while, he said, “My God. Where did you get this clam? It is so big!”

“Yuyu picked it up from the bottom of the river.”

Li Xiu’e heard what Su Hu just said and became very happy. Before she could say something to express her joy, she saw her husband staring at the clam in a daze. She was at a loss whether to cry or laugh.

“Su Hu, there may be pearls in the clam. Be careful when you pry them open. Don’t break the pearls.”

Su Qingluo woke up. She heard her parents’ voices and went toward the window. She smiled and looked into the yard with her chin resting on her hand.

“Yuyu, did you really catch this?”

Su Hu’s eyes widened in disbelief and he looked extremely surprised. “I have never seen such a big clam in my life. Is it some kind of monster?”

“What are you talking about?”

Li Xiu’e gave him an angry look and said, “Don’t frighten the kid.”

The rumors of spirits and monsters had always been widely spread among people. Some villagers believed it without any doubt. When they encountered mysterious things that could be explained, they liked to talk about spirits and monsters. The more they talked about them, the stranger the whole thing would become.

It was a basin-sized clam. Su Hu had never seen that kind of clam before. He believed that his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather had never seen that, either.

At first sight of such a big clam, he unconsciously thought about the monsters.

“Mom, it’s okay. I’m not so timid.”

Su Qingluo got out of her bedroom and walked to the big water tank.

The cute little girl looked at the clam at the bottom of the tank, made a face with her eyelids pinched, and laughed to frighten it.

“My father said that you have become a master. If you can really understand my words, you should open the clamshell yourself and spit out the pearls. If you don’t, I will break your clamshell and make you some kind of soup.”

A string of bubbles appeared at the bottom of the tank, and the clam seemed to shake slightly, which was almost uncatchable.

“On my count of three, if you don’t take the initiative to open the clamshell, I’ll let my dad take a hammer and smash you.”

Su Qingluo smiled cunningly at the clam and showed her snow-white, pink and tender hands to the clam. She started counting.

“One, two, three.”

A long string of bubbles appeared at the bottom of the tank, and the clam shook violently as if it was shaking with fear.

“Oh my god! Su Hu, look at it. It is really a monster.”

Li Xiu’e suddenly started sweating.

“Yuyu, what should we do?”

Su Hu was also shocked. He habitually turned his head to his daughter.

During these five years, he always believed that his daughter was a blessed girl. He thought his daughter was absolutely right.

“I will give you one last chance.”

Su Qingluo ignored her parents’ worries. A gold light came out between her eyebrows, which seemed to have scared the clam. “Be obedient, and I will let you go home.”

The clam was frightened by Su Qingluo. The shell of the clam was trembling and finally opened at the bottom of the water. Soon, dozens of pearls as big as pigeon eggs appeared inside the clam.