After graduating with her master's degree, Cheng Qingdai landed a job as a giant panda keeper at a research base. On the day her induction training ended, she fell down a hillside while visiting her hometown to relocate her family's ancestral graves.
When she opened her eyes again, she was a hundred years in the past, the third young lady of a medicine shop in the Republic of China era. Everyone was trying to talk her out of becoming a warlord's concubine.
Cheng Qingdai: "..."
Was smoke rising from her ancestors' graves, or was it wolf smoke? She'd spent three extra years getting her master's degree just to become a panda keeper!
Where on earth had she been sent? She'd struggled for years and finally achieved her dream, but she hadn't even touched a single panda hair yet!
In this era, it was hard enough for ordinary people to farm in peace. The giant pandas' living conditions were even worse!
A French priest brought back a panda specimen, sparking a craze for the exotic animal!
Two of President Roosevelt's sons traveled across the ocean, shot and killed giant pandas, then published a book boasting about their hunting trophies!
Foreigners paid silver dollars to hire local hunters and hunting dogs to capture pandas alive in large numbers, or kill them and take their pelts. In ten years, more than a dozen live pandas were sent abroad!
They died along the way from the unsuitable climate, pneumonia, malnutrition, and other causes! More than seventy pelt specimens were displayed in museums across Europe and America!
Cheng Qingdai had once learned about the humiliating history of the national treasure. Now she was experiencing it firsthand, and nearly burst a lung with rage! Outrageous!
She'd said she was going to be a giant panda keeper!! A keeper!!
Ha! Nothing could stop her from becoming a keeper of the national treasure, the giant panda!!
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The delicate Third Miss Cheng suddenly started working out, then took a train to volunteer at the family's southwestern branch.
Turns out she wasn't going to dig up medicinal herbs, but she was going into the mountains.
She also often wore two pig-butchering cleavers at her waist, pointing them at all kinds of blond, blue-eyed foreigners of high standing, causing trouble and frightening everyone.
She even carried a black-and-white spotted bear in her arms.
The bear was goofy-cute and fierce. It bit anyone it saw, once crushing a man's hand with a single bite, yet it behaved itself in Third Miss Cheng's arms.
"There, there, don't be scared. We'll be back in the mountains soon to eat bamboo and sleep." People even saw her talking to the bear in her arms.
The bear would respond with a series of "Mm, mm, mm..."
Theme: Protect the national treasure!
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