The Famine Year: Our Doted Little Aunt Feeds the Whole Family

The Famine Year: Our Doted Little Aunt Feeds the Whole Family Plot:

In the famine-stricken Republic of China, the Cheng family’s grain reserves were depleted, and the three-year-old nephew sobbed uncontrollably clutching an empty bowl. Cheng Niantao, the little aunt who had always been cherished by the whole family, surprisingly took out sweet potato seeds she had saved for three years from the bottom of her chest. She sneaked to the back mountain at night to catch hares with traps and even exchanged her dowry embroidered handkerchief for cornmeal from the neighboring village—turns out she had secretly turned everyone’s love into a lifeline. But village bullies targeted the Cheng family’s grain. When Niantao stood at the courtyard gate holding a pottery jar of seeds, she saw her parents, brothers, and sisters-in-law standing in a line with hoes: “Our Cheng family’s treasure protects us, so we must protect her too!”