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The 1970s Drought: My Family Dug Into an Underground World

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In 1972, Lijia Village in northern Shanxi faced a century-long drought—crops died, and even drinking water was a matter of life and death. Li Yuan, a young hunter, dug a well behind his house in desperation to save his feverish, water-starved wife Ke Ke—only to smash open a temperature-controlled cave! Inside, there was a clear underground river, clusters of wild mushrooms, and even a grain storage窖 from the previous dynasty. The couple planned to secretly use the cave’s resources to save the village, but Wang Dazhu, the village bully eyeing their homestead, falsely accused them of “damaging the dragon vein” and tried to demolish their house to seize the cave. Ke Ke, relying on her past-life business acumen, traded wild goods from the cave for relief grain to help the villagers and tricked the bully into his own trap. But as they ventured deeper into the cave, they found a stone tablet inscribed with “Disaster Shelter Pavilion of the Wanli Era” (Ming Dynasty)—could this underground world be an ancient survival secret left by our ancestors?

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