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In the 1980s Famine: The Beloved Young Aunt Leads Her Family to Prosperity

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In a poor 1983 Northwest Shanxi village, Lin Wanwan—who just failed the college entrance exam—returns to a family drowning in despair: her brother plans to sell the family heirloom for his younger brother’s bride price, her sister-in-law hides wild vegetable soup to avoid shame, and her little nephew weeps as he chews a cold corn bun. But Lin Wanwan holds a 21st-century wealth secret: she spends 5 yuan on 3 rabbits for breeding, boils wild honey candy at midnight, and drags her brother to the county town to sell handmade insoles. Villagers mock her as a “crazy girl wasting time”—until she earns 80 yuan in the first month, until her family builds the village’s first brick house, until those who once ridiculed her beg for cooperation. When the penniless Lin family becomes a “ten-thousand-yuan household,” Lin Wanwan realizes: her brother hid her study materials to spare her fatigue, her sister-in-law sneaks her the only egg, and her nephew saved marbles for half a year to buy her a new hair tie. She isn’t “leading the family to prosperity”—the family has been secretly spoiling her all along. In the famine, the sweetest meal is the love they gather; the warmest light is the sincerity of standing by each other.

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