The Compound's Little Demon Pill, Five and a Half and Fierce

In 1977, five-and-a-half-year-old Jiang Tang was returned from the countryside to the city by her aunt. The reason? The child ate too much, caused too much trouble, and had beaten up every boy in the village. No one came to fetch her. Her father, Jiang Beichen, had supposedly died three years ago while carrying out a top-secret mission, and her mother, Su Wanning, had supposedly disappeared afterward. No one knew she was still alive. With a ragged cloth bundle, thirty cents, and a letter in her pocket, Jiang Tang boarded a train to Beijing all by herself. She was going to find her mother. She took the wrong train, and while she was wandering outside the military compound, she was spotted by Shen Su, a deputy commander passing by. This cold, iron-blooded man had no idea what came over him, but he took the filthy little girl home. From then on, the Shen family compound was turned upside down. Zhao Tiedan, the compound's number-one little hellion, trembled whenever he saw Jiang Tang. The neighbor's Pekingese ran straight to its kennel when she appeared. Even the cafeteria lady gave her an extra scoop. Everyone thought this child was a good-for-nothing: weak, scrawny, and useless at everything. Then one day, she recreated Deputy Commander Shen's top-secret battle plan in the mud, using a branch, perfectly to scale. Only later did people learn that her photographic memory, uncanny instincts for danger, and terrifying