It’s a famine year, and everyone is starving.
Lingya wants to dig up the family grave to trade for food.
Great-Grandma agrees.
Her younger brother, Meng Dun, agrees too.
The three of them have made up their minds, and Lingya gets right to work.
She digs into the grave one shovel at a time.
Maybe the ancestors don’t approve, because Lingya runs into something truly evil.
There’s a sixteen-year-old Great-Grandma in the grave.
Sixteen-year-old Great-Grandma is fierce. She tells Lingya to get lost seven hundred times a day, won’t let her into the house, and won’t let her follow her around.
Then Lingya finds her first treasure at the ghost market.
Everything changes.
Great-Grandma stops being fierce, their ramshackle shelter gets a roof, they save a down-and-out old noble, and make the acquaintance of a wealthy gentleman.
They open a shop.
Lingya: “Great-Grandma, I’ll find treasures and support you!”
Great-Grandma: “Fine, fine. I suppose I’ll agree. And stop calling me Great-Grandma! I’m only sixteen.”
