In the Year of Famine, My Group-Buying Chat Went Wild

She transmigrated to the 1960s and woke up to a hellish start.

The whole family hadn't seen a single grain of rice in three days. Her grandfather was so hungry he lay on the heated kang bed waiting to die. Her mother had tightened her waistband three more notches, and the youngest little sister was so hungry at night that she bit her own fingers until her hands were covered in blood.

The villagers had already started digging up wild vegetable roots and boiling tree bark soup. The production brigade's ox had starved to death, and someone nearly died on the day they divided up the beef.

Su Kui thought she was going to die in this famine.

Then she heard a voice...

[Ding! Someone in the Chaoyang Residents' Group 3 has mentioned you.]

[Liu from Building 23: Group-buying leader, I got the ribs yesterday. Even my dog won't eat them. They're way too tough!]

[Wang from Unit 15: The group order of cherries arrived. The 3J ones are too small. Anyone want them?]

Su Kui looked out at the famine-stricken land, then at the pile of "junk food" in the group chat, and fell silent for three seconds.

Everyone thought the whole Su family, old and young, wouldn't survive the winter.

Then one night, Ergouzi, who lived next door and was too hungry to sleep, peeped through a crack in the wall...

On the Su family's stove sat a basin of fluffy white rice.

In the bowl beside it was pork with preserved vegetables, glistening with oil.

The little girl who'd been too hungry to walk the day before was holding a sponge cake and licking the cream off it in tiny bites.

Ergouzi went crazy on the spot.

Later, word spread throughout the surrounding villages: the eldest Su girl had a ghost.

Every night, a pile of things would appear out of nowhere at her door, packed in strange bags with colorful labels. Their smell was enough to entice a person's soul right out of their body.

Until the stern-faced regiment commander, recently returned from the battlefield, blocked her path.

"Comrade," he said in a low voice, his Adam's apple bobbing. "That... stuff in your bags, can you trade it?"

Su Kui looked down at the plastic bag from [Xixi Grocery Delivery] that had just arrived.

"...What do you want? I've got potatoes and eggs, and today's special is cola chicken wings."

#I'mOrderingTakeoutInThe1960s

#TheWholeProductionBrigadeIsStarvingWhileMyFamilyFeastsEveryDay

Theme: Even in the most barren of times, love and hope can cross through time and space.