The Great Famine of the 1960s: A Lucky Little Girl Saves the Whole Family

When they were so hungry they were nearly eating dirt, Lin Dashan and his wife found a little girl in a pit.

They fed her the last bowl of gruel in the house. The little girl pointed at the empty rice jar, and suddenly half a jar of rice appeared inside!

From then on, the Lin family’s fortunes changed.

Xiaoyu pointed at a tree root, and her father dug up wild chicken eggs. She said a stone looked pretty, and her second brother found agate he could sell for money. Anyone who came near her with a headache or fever recovered in no time.

But when cruel relatives stole Xiaoyu and abandoned her deep in the mountains, Wang Guifen was so frantic she vomited blood. The villagers accused her of spreading consumption and tried to drive her out. Her three sons fought to protect their mother and were beaten until they were covered in bruises.

Deep in the mountains, three-year-old Xiaoyu understood the words of animals for the first time.

A squirrel led her to the life-saving lingzhi mushrooms and ginseng. A hare guided her to an old doctor who had collapsed from hunger in the mountains.

Once the family was reunited, Lin Dashan angrily split from the clan!

After the split, Xiaoyu went for a “casual stroll” and found a cave full of wild yams, a pile of nuts beside a squirrel’s nest, and stones in the stream that had the traveling peddler crying, “These are precious Yuhua stones!” They sold them for their first huge windfall.

An epidemic struck the village. The barefoot doctor could only shake his head, but Xiaoyu dreamed of a little plant with purple flowers blooming behind the mountain...

Grandma came to steal their grain? The granary mysteriously “caught fire” in the middle of the night.

The village bully tried to trip them up? The next day, he fell into a cesspit.

A neighbor called Xiaoyu a “monster”? Their own child immediately fell ill, and they ended up begging the Lin family for herbal medicine.

Then, on a night of torrential rain, Xiaoyu jolted awake from a nightmare. “Dad! The mountain’s going to collapse!”

The whole village followed the Lin family to higher ground. When they looked back, a mudslide had swallowed their old homes in an instant.

Xiaoyu became the little lucky star of the entire village.

Just as life was growing better and better, a car drove into Linjia Village...