Little Lucky Star of the 1980S: I Get Rich Hunting the Hills with My Uncle the Bully

[Tags: Historical Setting, Adorable Child, Mountain and Sea Foraging, Rough Dad Who Dotes on His Daughter, Building Wealth] On a winter day in 1982, three-and-a-half-year-old Lin Jian was cruelly abandoned in the woods by her biological father, who used "picking fruit" as an excuse to leave her there to die. She survived a day and a night in the snow by chewing on tree bark, before Shen Wangshan, the "ex-convict" notorious throughout the village, brought her home. The villagers all lamented the little girl's tragic fate. In the hands of a "villain" who had once broken someone's leg, surely she wouldn't survive. But no one knew that Jianjian was born with eyes that could see the "auras" of living things! Gold meant precious wild ginseng, blue meant abundant schools of fish, green meant edible wild fruit, and red meant dangerous predators... Guided by those big eyes, Shen Wangshan, once ostracized by the entire village, began bringing home an astonishing haul from his hunts. Wild rabbits became roe deer, roe deer became wild boars, and he even dug up a decades-old ginseng root that no one had found! Her biological father's family, who had once called Jianjian a "money-losing burden," grew green with envy, while the village head and his son, who kept trying to trip them up, got put in their place time and again. Yet the taciturn, hard-hearted man in the village clumsily sewed her a pair of rabbit-fur hand warmers late at night, giving her the warmest home of all. Watch how a three-year-old girl abandoned by her family leads her rough-and-tumble dad from deep in the mountains to the vast seashore, becoming the renowned "Mountain and Sea Hunting King" far and wide!