A Sixties-Era Cutie Travels to the Modern Age, and the Whole Village Gets to Eat Well

[Period setting + cherished by everyone + adorable child + near-expiry warehouse + farming and business + satisfying wish fulfillment + the whole team protects the child]

Song Hehe is three and a half. Her parents have been sent away to the countryside, and her grandparents are so hungry they’re skin and bones.

The entire Niujiaogou production team is in the grip of famine, and she is its smallest “burden.”

But no one knows that the old copper button her mother sewed into her tiger-head hat grows warm at midnight.

Touch it, and she finds herself inside a vast, brightly lit building with shelves stacked to the ceiling.

Everything in there is colorful and smells delicious.

But she can’t take anything out. The only things she can bring back are marked with the two red characters “expired.”

And so the three-year-old begins her career as a “bargain hunter.”

One-day-expired survival crackers, milk powder nearing its expiration date, sausages in damaged packaging, instant noodles with dented corners…

Starting with the first packet of life-saving salt, her grandparents regain their strength, the educated youth find hope, and smoke rises from the stoves across the whole production team once more.

People ask, “How does Niujiaogou exceed its quotas year after year? Why does every member look so healthy and rosy-cheeked?”

The team leader thumps his chest. “Our team has a lucky little darling!”

But when outsiders set their sights on this poor mountain village, every man and woman, young and old, stands in front of the child.

“Want to lay a hand on our little Hehe? Then try getting past our dozens of hoes!”

The little darling hugs a box of expired luncheon meat and says in her baby voice, “Grandpa, this is meat. Yummy. Give it to everyone to eat.”

The whole team is moved to tears.