The 1970s: The Mighty Little Dumpling Rides a Goose into the Wide World

In 1970, three-and-a-half-year-old Chu Xiaoguai was a wild little girl from an impoverished mountain village, born with superhuman strength and a huge appetite. But when her awful grandmother tried to sell off her gravely ill mother to an old widower as a good-luck bride, she finally snapped. With one hand, she hoisted a stone mill weighing half a ton and smashed open the gates of the Tang family home. Then, accompanied by "General," a village bully of a goose she'd beaten into submission, she set off on a hard-core adventure from southern Henan to the far northwest to find her biological father, an educated youth sent to the countryside. Along the way, the little girl caught wild boars with her bare hands to pay for travel, used brute strength to intimidate black-market dealers until they treated her like an honored guest, and took on a human-trafficking den by herself to rescue dozens of children.