The Five-Year-Old Who Raised the Whole Village, Her Coins Connect Two Worlds

After three months without food in the exile village, five-year-old Yaya faints from hunger on the kang. When she opens her eyes again, she’s barefoot on a brightly lit street, facing a chubby boy in a dinosaur jacket. “Don’t eat that! It’s dirty, you picked it up off the ground!” The boy snatches the moldy steamed bun from her hand and offers her a piping-hot white-flour bun instead. “Eat this!” Clutching the bun, Yaya thinks: Grandma, Auntie Wang, and Gouwa are all starving back in the village... What can she trade to bring back more buns, lots and lots more?