share time: 2025-10-14 00:33:41
In the late Republic of China, a small village in northern Shanxi faced a once-in-a-century famine. Lin Dazhu and his wife had just buried their starved mother and were despairingly waiting for death with their sick son when they found a cute little girl named Xiaoman late at night. Unexpectedly, Xiaoman was a "living lucky charm"—the crooked tree she pointed to hid half a cellar of sweet potatoes, the hen she fed laid double-yolked eggs daily, and even the dying wheat seedlings revived after her watering. Villagers first envied her and called her a "monster", until Xiaoman led everyone to a wild bitter vegetable field in the back mountain—then the whole village knelt and called her "little fairy". The Lin family went from eating clay to smelling rice every day, but the silver lock Xiaoman hid in her arms seemed to hold a big secret about her origin...
mute, 2x speed, if you want to adjust, please click the controller bar to adjust