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1970s Drought: My Family Dug Into an Underground World

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In 1972, during a severe drought in Northwest China, Lin Wan, who had just married into Taohua Village, watched her in-laws' family of five surviving on soil. She forced her husband Li Tiegen to dig a well for survival. Unexpectedly, after breaking through a twenty-meter bluestone slab, they stumbled into a glowing underground cave—clear spring water dripped from stalactites, luminous grass climbed the walls, and there was even a century-old sealed wooden box. But when the news leaked, the village head led villagers to surround their yard, claiming "underground things belong to the collective." Holding her little sister-in-law, who was saved by the cave water, Lin Wan suddenly noticed the luminous grass matched the pattern on the silver lock her grandma gave her before death. And from the white mist rising in the cave, something seemed to be moving…

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