[No golden finger + everyday life + family matters + reborn in a bygone era + food]
Liu, an old woman from the countryside, spent her whole life living for her son.
She scrimped and saved to put him through university,
borrowed money from everyone she could to buy him a house in the city,
and, starting in her fifties, went to his home to help raise his children,
looking after them for more than ten years, until she died of illness.
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to 1984.
At twenty-nine, she was healthy, with her son and three bright, clever daughters gathered around her.
Liu Guilan pulled her daughters into her arms.
“Mom’s taking you to the city to go to school!”
This is not a story about someone reborn with knowledge of the future.
It is the story of a woman who, with the simplest of convictions, “Education changes your fate, and food is the people’s first necessity,” weathered the tides of the times and gave her daughters a place to thrive.
She knew nothing about stocks or real estate, but she understood how to tend the fire beneath the stove, and how to kindle the fire in every child’s heart.
Just so-so,