The minute he suddenly realized how impossible for him to feed five expansive mouths just by growing rice. The minute, unlike when he was at pains to send Mei away, he struggled to have his favored little daughter Lei adopted by a Wang family with three generations having no daughters. If that morning Mei wasn’t taken away, little Lei could have stayed; and if that afternoon Old Wang didn’t appear, he could have let me quit school. However, when Old Wang exultantly claimed that twelve-year-old Lei was the ideal one after years of desperately looking from village to village for a girl born in the year of the Chicken, father compromised powerlessly. According to Lei’s birth and the eight characters of a horoscope, father believed in what Old Wang had believed - that Lei would bring both families a good fortune. It was at right time and right place, and father was in the right mood. Therefore, Lei was taken away after the Spring Festival.