In the Famine Year, I Invented in the Village

In the Famine Year, I Invented in the Village Plot:

When famine swept the small mountain village, Lin Xiaoman—once scolded as “unproductive”—finally put her three-year-old “gadgets” to use: improved pedal waterwheels that draw water from dry wells, earthen distillers that purify dirty river water, and even “fireproof sheds” made of straw for grain storage. At first, the villagers called her “crazy for no reason”—until Granny recovered from a fever after drinking her clean water, and Uncle Wang’s parched fields were saved by her waterwheel. Only then did they realize: this girl who always squatted on the ridge drawing blueprints had long etched “keeping the village alive” into her bones—and all her inventions were the “survival skills” her late father taught her.