At Three and a Half, She Scours the Mountains for Treasures and Feeds the Whole Village

(Adorable child ventures into the mountains + Everyday farming + The whole family turns their fortunes around + Little mountain god’s lucky star + Lighthearted wish-fulfillment + Healing family bonds + Prosperity through food + No romance, focused on the adorable child) Three-and-a-half-year-old Jiang Manman was abandoned at the foot of the mountains near Qingshi Village. Clutching a broken bamboo basket, she lisped that she could hear the mountains “smelling delicious.” The villagers all laughed at the little girl for bragging. But on her first trip into the mountains, she found a nest of wild chicken eggs. On the second day, she dug up a hundred-year-old polygonatum root. On the third day, she brought home a little white wolf that was nearly starving, and even found a hunter who had been missing for three days. After that, Qingshi Village was turned upside down. Other people relied on sharp eyes to forage in the mountains. Jiang Manman just gave a sniff with her little nose: “It smells yummy over here. There’s treasure!” Other people depended on the weather for their crops. Jiang Manman crouched by the field and clapped her hands: “There’s sweet soil sleeping here. Anything will grow!” The Jiang family had been so poor they could barely put food on the table. With Manman gathering mountain produce, growing magical vegetables, and preparing mountain feasts, they gradually opened a mountain-goods shop, set up a village granary, and built the Mountain of a Hundred Flavors Manor, bringing prosperity to the whole village. Jealous, rotten relatives? Manman squeaked, “Don’t bully my mother!” Greedy merchants trying to steal her recipes? Manman clutched her little abacus. “Pay up!” Local nobles coming to seize the treasure mountain? Manman raised her little shovel. “The mountain belongs to everyone. It’s not for sale!” This is the story of a lucky little girl who helps her mother, brothers, and the whole village turn hard times into days filled with the delicious aroma of food cooking in a hot pot.