On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Xiang once again made his rounds through the village, offering New Year's greetings. Whenever he ran into a child, he would pull out a red envelope. There wasn't much inside—just eighteen yuan.
It wasn't that he was being stingy, but rather that he couldn't give too much.
If he gave too much, the red envelopes would just end up with the adults. Only with a few or a dozen yuan could the children have control over the money themselves.
Besides, red envelopes were meant to be a token of good luck.
Solitary elderly folks, like Third Granny, were naturally a priority on Li Xiang's list of visits. He brought gifts and sat at Third Granny's home for a long time. He also secretly used his Earth Superpower to level her land and took the opportunity to loosen the soil and weed her vegetable garden.
He did it as subtly as "a silent, nurturing rain," so Third Granny never noticed a thing.
