A giant cabbage leaf descended from the sky!

Gao Yiye was startled at first, but quickly composed herself. It wasn’t the first time she had been “fed” by the Great deity. She was no longer as shocked as when she first saw the giant egg.

Overjoyed, she first knelt down, kowtowed to the sky, and loudly thanked, “Divine gift!” Then she stood up and shouted at the top of her voice, “Everyone, come quickly, the Great deity has bestowed us with food again!”

The villagers, who had been carrying bamboo baskets and preparing to go foraging, swiftly gathered around.

The giant cabbage leaf left them momentarily dazed, but after experiencing the giant egg and the giant rice, they were only stunned for a short while. Then, the Village Chief gave an order, and everyone began to divide the large cabbage leaf.

“One piece per family! Set aside a few pieces for Gao Chuwu and those kids who went to the county town,” the Village Chief shouted. The villagers obediently lined up for distribution, each cutting a large piece of the leaf and taking it home.

As Li Daoxuan had predicted, with food bestowed early in the morning, the villagers were no longer in a hurry to dig for wild vegetables.

When hungry, people had only one trouble—food. But after the problem of food and clothing was solved, there would be countless troubles.

The villagers soon began to exhibit diverse lifestyles.

“Sanwa, the crotch of your pants has been torn for several days. Come here, I’ll sew it back as your mother.”

Li Daoxuan noticed that there was a middle-aged woman in the village who was very skilled at needlework. With just a pair of scissors and a needle, she managed to sew a beautiful piece of burlap clothing for her child.

“Labage, didn’t you say last time you would teach me how to fire pottery jars? I deliberately dug up a large piece of yellow clay. Teach me how to turn this into a jar.”

Li Daoxuan saw two middle-aged men playing with mud. It turned out one of them knew how to make pottery jars. This was a remarkable craft indeed. Shortly, he shaped a lump of yellow clay into a beautiful pottery jar. The other, clumsy as he followed, actually managed to mold a crooked jar.

Moving his view to another part of the village, the Village Chief unexpectedly had skills too. He whittled a pile of bamboo sticks and soon wove a bamboo basket and two bamboo containers. His handiwork was incredibly neat.

“Gao Yiyi, my axe is dull. Can you forge it for me?”

Li Daoxuan’s gaze followed and discovered a blacksmith named Gao Yiyi who was helping his neighbor forge an axe. After a series of clanging sounds—Namo Amitabha—the axe was fixed and looked as good as new.

Now, the scenes in the diorama became much richer, and he watched with great interest.

“Huh? Wait! There seems to be something incredible to watch.”

Li Daoxuan suddenly noticed that Gao Yiye was drawing water.

She drew a bucket of water from the well, carried it back to her room, poured it into a large wooden basin, and then shut the door and closed the window tightly.

He suddenly understood—wasn’t this exactly what those idle netizens in the forum had talked about?

The girl was going to use that bucket of water to wipe her body.

For some reason, Li Daoxuan’s heart began to pound with a thudding rhythm.

He looked down at the magnifying glass in his hand and then at Gao Yiye’s dilapidated house…

The house was full of holes everywhere, especially on the roof. Probably due to the three-year drought when little rain fell, nobody cared whether the roof leaked or not. There was a visible hole through which one could see inside.

If he aligned the magnifying glass to that hole’s position… he would be able to see…

Li Daoxuan started to struggle: should I be a human or a wolf?

As he was deeply conflicted, he suddenly noticed a face appearing at the broken hole.

It turned out to be Gao Yiye. She piled up tables and stools, climbing to a great height, until she could reach the hole in the roof.

She looked up towards the sky through the hole; Li Daoxuan looked towards the hole from the “sky”.

Thus, their gazes met again.

A strange atmosphere was exchanged in their gazes.

After several seconds, Gao Yiye averted her gaze; she dared not look directly at the Great deity. Just then, her dirty little face flushed bright red, so red that even the smudges couldn’t hide it, turning her entire face a dark crimson.

However, she was too small; her whole body was less than one centimeter tall.

Without a magnifying glass, Li Daoxuan couldn’t clearly see the color of her face, let alone the trace of shyness on it.

With a “bang”, Gao Yiye pushed open the door and ran out.

She quickly ran to the Village Chief’s side, lowered her voice to a volume she thought the Great deity couldn’t hear, and whispered, “Village Chief Grandpa, I have something I want to ask you.”

Village Chief: “Oh? What is it?”

Gao Yiye’s face was deeply red: “The Great deity… seems to have been… up in the sky… watching me…”

Village Chief: “This is your blessing! The Great deity favors you; He has been watching over you from the sky, giving us food through your hands and divine messages through your mouth. You should be grateful; why do you look so strange?”

Gao Yiye: “I… have been… watched… so how will I… change clothes? How… bathe?”

Village Chief: “Tsk! So it’s this kind of nonsense. Don’t forget who gave you your life; changing clothes and bathing mean nothing. When the Great deity needs your service someday, you should obey obediently.”

At that time, in the folk, many peculiar beliefs existed, and it was common for some sects to require women to serve “deities.” Of course, the deities themselves gained nothing; those women were actually serving, with their bodies, monks, Taoist priests, or divine beings who “spoke for the deities.”

Hearing the Village Chief’s words, Gao Yiye’s heart sank: So that’s how it is? The Great deity saved my life and gave me food; does He need me… to serve Him?

Her mind flashed with the Great deity’s young and handsome face, but she immediately pushed it aside. Ah, what am I thinking? It’s too disrespectful.

Returning home, she looked up at the hole in the roof and dismissed the idea of repairing it. As the Village Chief said, if the Great deity wants to see, let Him; my life, Gao Yiye’s, was given by Him, so what can’t I show Him?

With trembling hands, she unbuttoned her clothes.

Her grimy body was exposed; she hadn’t bathed in too long, and yellow sand had caked on her skin.

Plus, with long-term malnutrition, she was all skin and bones, and her body couldn’t be called attractive.

She mocked herself in her heart: With this filthy, skinny body put before the Great deity, He wouldn’t even bother to glance at it; why should I hide anything?

She picked up a ripped cloth, wrung it out in a water bucket, and began carefully wiping herself…

She didn’t know that at that moment, Li Daoxuan had already put away the magnifying glass.

If he hadn’t been discovered by the girl at first, he might have acted like a wolf.

But since he’d been caught spying once, a normal person wouldn’t have the nerve to peek a second time.

He turned his gaze away and looked toward the edge of the scenic box, thinking: How are those small people who went to the county town to find the adviser? Once they left the scenic box, I couldn’t see or care for them anymore. If they died out there, what should I do?