In a famine year with no food, the old lady of the Gu family actually gave away her three-year-old granddaughter in exchange for five measures of life-saving food.
Lin Wanhe, who had just arrived, snatched the child back, chose to cleanse herself and leave the house in public, and lived in a leaky and dilapidated house with her four stepsons and stepdaughters, who were sallow and skinny.
There is no food, no money, and her husband disappeared on the way to deliver relief food. Everyone in the village is waiting to see when this evil stepmother will sell her children and remarry.
Lin Wanhe discovered a spiritual spring from a dry well behind the dilapidated house that could only draw out three ladles of water every day.
She identified wild vegetables, raised vegetable seedlings, reclaimed wasteland, made mushroom dishes, ground tofu, and baked multigrain cakes. Starting from a pot of wild vegetable paste, she gradually raised her four children to be white and fat.
Later, the Gu family's old house came to ask for food. Grain dealers in the town teamed up to block roads. Disaster victims in the county flooded in. The long-missing husband also returned home with a disaster relief food case.
Others are asking when Lin Wanhe will become the richest man in the world.
But she just wants to keep her own grain farm, so that her family can have food to eat, and more ordinary people can afford a hot meal in disaster years.
