Chapter 1 — I Bring Luck to Him, But He Criticizes Me as a Misfortune

I was born with good fortune, prosperity for people, prosperity for my family. The year Ta Lam Xuyen encountered an accident. I knelt before the statue of Guan Yin, begging my lady to bring my good fortune to him. Later, he passed the exam, entered the Han Lam Institute, and became the new noble of the capital. When I walk on the road, I stumble and fall, and I choke when I drink water. Even the blessing bag that I embroidered with my own hands had its bottom punctured for no reason. Ta Lam Xuyen hates me:

“Tham Tue Ninh, why are you so unlucky right now?”

I bowed my head and tightened my shirt:

“Because my luck has already been given to you.”

He laughed coldly:

“Don't use crazy words like that to tie me down.”

You and I have had an engagement since we were still in the womb, just waiting for you to marry me through the door. Unexpectedly, he hid from me and climbed a high branch, befriending the daughter of the current Prime Minister. As for me, I was put on a palanquin belonging to a disabled royal family. Everyone says that a good ear combined with a waste person is truly a match made in heaven. However, right on the night of becoming married. The begonia tree in the Royal Palace, which had withered for 10 years, bloomed again. I held the carp paper kite I had just finished pasting, sadly bowed my head and walked towards the main street. Just passing through the flower corridor, I immediately heard a cheerful laugh. Ta Lam Xuyen's younger sister, Ta Bao Chau, was shoveling chrysanthemums with several noble ladies under the porch. We haven't had time to avoid it yet. The chrysanthemum scoop (like a modern ball) as big as a hydrangea just hit me right in the face. Before my eyes went dark, my whole body fell backwards onto the ground. Nasal cavity stings. Two streams of hot blood flowed down the nose. Ta Bao Chau picked up her skirt and ran over. At first she was stunned for a moment, then immediately hugged her stomach and laughed until her waist was bent.

“Sister Tue Ninh, what's wrong with you?”

"Other people use their feet to kick the shuttlecock, but you use your face to block the shuttlecock?"

The ladies behind also laughed in groups.

“Bao Chau, this ball of yours is really accurate.”

“It's not like I'm right, it's clearly sister Tue Ninh who stabbed her head into the ball herself.”

Ta Bao Chau squatted in front of me, smiling and looking at me.

“Sister Tue Ninh, your luck is too bad, right?”

"The other day I went to pick jade orchids and was stung by a bee."

“Yesterday when I went into the kitchen to serve soup, the soup bowl broke again.”

"Today is even more powerful, just standing on the side of the road can be hit by a bridge."

“Tell me, are you an unlucky ghost reincarnated?”

I said nothing. Just tilt your head up, trying your best not to let your nose bleed onto the paper kite in your lap. This is the kite I stayed up all night to glue. When Ta Bao Chau saw me protecting the paper kite, he burst out laughing.

“Oh, sister Tue Ninh, are you planning to fly paper kites?”

She reached out and grabbed it. Then look at the carp paper kite I made for Ta Lam Xuyen. The fish body uses cinnabar and gold powder to meticulously draw the fish's scales, the red tail fin is very long, and is decorated with 2 strings of small golden bells. Under the fish's belly there is also a red paper hanging. Above is written: 【The carp crosses the Dragon Gate, the clouds are thousands of miles away.】 I explain:

"Didn't you say that today we will compete in flying paper kites? I waited from morning until afternoon. There was not even a single person on the willow dike south of the city."

Ta Bao Chau was stunned, then immediately laughed.

"Are you stupid? Yesterday's paper kite competition is over."

“My elder brother Tang and Prime Minister So Chieu Ninh's daughter have taken it red paper, win first place.”

“The whole capital knows about this.”

I stiffened. It turns out I didn't remember the wrong place. But Ta Lam Xuyen intentionally told the wrong time, not wanting to let me go. The nose is still bleeding. I desperately tilted my head up, my eye sockets also stinging. Ta Bao Chau was still laughing at me with the sisters next to me.

"Her appearance like this is even funnier than when she entered the capital 3 months ago."

"At that time, she brought along a little maid, wearing an old gray outfit, and stood in front of the palace gate saying she wanted to find my brother's way."

"The servants still thought they were rural girls from somewhere, with such great courage, they dared to climb up and drag the new graduate, Poinsettia."

The lady covered her lips and smiled and said:

“Did she really go to the capital alone to find Lord Ta?”

Ta Bao Chau prolonged his voice:

“But nothing else.”

"The country girl is truly amazing, carrying a tattered bag, leading a little maid, yet she dared to travel thousands of miles to the capital to find a husband."

"I'm not afraid that people won't recognize her."

I tightened the bamboo frame of the paper kite.