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In the winter of 1960, Lin Xiaoman, a newlywed in a small village in northern Sichuan, faced the grain shortage right after marrying into the Wang family—her sick mother-in-law needed rice porridge for nutrition, her husband gnawed on frozen steamed buns at the construction site, and even their only cotton wadding was too thin to block the wind. But her old wooden box by the bed turned into a "mystery box" every night: she trembled when touching a warm white flour bun, smelled fresh indigo when pulling out a blue cloth, and once got half a piece of bacon that almost made her mother-in-law suspect it was "ill-gotten". She quietly supported her family with the mystery box—helped Aunt Zhang get brown sugar for her sick child, sewed new cotton pants for her husband. But when a semiconductor radio popped out of the box, the whole village’s suspicious eyes focused on her—how could she keep this "heaven-sent" treasure hidden?
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