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During the Famine, I Got Rich with My Three Treasures

share time: 2025-12-20 12:39:39

In a famine-stricken year, Lin Xiu, an orphan fleeing hunger, collapsed in a broken temple. When she woke up, three skinny kids were huddled in her arms—the eldest could identify wild edible herbs, the second had a sweet mouth that made passersby give coins, and the youngest weaved sturdier bamboo baskets than peddlers. She initially planned to send the kids away for a bowl of porridge, but when they tugged her tattered衣角 and called her “Mother,” Lin Xiu gritted her teeth and made pancakes with her last handful of cornmeal. Unexpectedly, the kids shouted about the pancakes while jumping in the market, attracting a passing grain merchant. Since then, she ran a snack stall relying on the kids’ “skills.” Later, she learned the kids were the lost legitimate grandsons of a wealthy Beijing family. But Lin Xiu refused gold and silver compensation, only saying, “The kids are my treasures.” Instead, she gained long-term supply from the merchant, turning from a refugee into the envy-worthy “Mother of Three Treasures” in the county—her life only got better and better...

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